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My grandfather flew over France that day in a USAAF bomber. He is gone now for 15 years but I am still proud of him. I got to visit the beaches there in 2007 and it was an eerie experience.
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RIP Men! We'll not see your like again.
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I always remember my great-uncle Corbit Nichols who jumped with the 82nd on D-Day. On the second day after the jump he was shot through the mouth from side to side when he raised up to yell some instructions to troops in this group. He fought on until relieved by forces from the beach.
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Campfire Ranger
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"The Greatest Generation" indeed... When men were men. That kind of event could never happen today; more died in the 1st hour than the total killed in Irag & Afghanistan combined in total. We owe a debt we cannot repay to all those brave men. MM
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Met a 94 year old WW2 vet today at church. It was his birthday. We had a great talk. He was with the 101st Airborne and jumped into Germany on D-Day. He is in a wheel chair but still has his wits about him. I gave him his due and honored him in front of others at the church as part of the Greatest Generation. just to be accurate the 101st jumped into france on d day, part of the normandy invasion. germany was in 1945 and end of 1944 not june of 1944.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
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my late dad landed on easy red sector, omaha beach about 0930. he was a pfc in the 210th mp co, part of 5th engineer special bde. 6/6 is his day, but it is a good a day as any to say a prayer for every other guy who saved our world, for awhile.. .
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Campfire Ranger
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We should honor "The Greatest Generation" by giving them the America back they fought and died for.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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We should honor "The Greatest Generation" by giving them the America back they fought and died for. Yep. If they could see the current state of affairs in America, they’d be rolling over in Their GRAVES.
Last edited by chlinstructor; 06/07/21.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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God Bless each and every one... Still one thing that has always hit me., over 50% of those that came ashore on June 6th 1944, were dead by June 20th, 1944... just two weeks later. We need to remember and honor each and every one.... Too many people just thought today was another day of the week.
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Campfire Tracker
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We should honor "The Greatest Generation" by giving them the America back they fought and died for. I'm all in for that. How do we get started!
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My father was right behind them. He missed D-Day, but made up for it in the Battle of the Bulge.
We were all antifascist then.
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