Thank you Doc for that..very well put.. let us all Never Forget the men and women who fight for our freedom's to live in this wonderful land we call home!
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Both of my grandfathers were WWII veterans - one was a flight instructor and one was a tail-gunner that was shot down and spent 18 months in a German prison camp. An amazing generation that we can only aspire to be.
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Originally posted by Steve Cohen: I will be smoking a Cohiba Churchill today in memory of their sacrifices.
now there's a great idea..
lots of men gave up their life so we can enjoy our freedom (and our cigars, of course)... the least we can do is smoke something worthy of the occasion...
my father was in the first wave to hit utah beach (4th infantry div.), went through st. lo, battle of the bulge, until finally being too near an exploding shell and coming back to the states on a hospital ship. problems for many years with what would now be called ptsd, but then was generally ignored.
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A time when men were men and Americans were Americans, our leaders did not whine about an "endless war". We lost 2000 people in a training mission for the D-Day Invasion. We took more casualties on D-Day than we have in the whole Iraq War. It's a shame how far our great country has fallen since those days. The men who served then would be utterly ashamed at how our leaders conduct themselves these days.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Ronald Reagan
We took more casualties on D-Day than we have in the whole Iraq War.
U.S. casualties on D-Day were 6,603 including 1,465 killed. Total allied casualties were around 10,000, total deaths among all the allies were 2,500.
4,509 Americans have been killed in the Iraq war. 30,182 have been wounded.
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U.S. casualties on D-Day were 6,603 including 1,465 killed. Total allied casualties were around 10,000, total deaths among all the allies were 2,500.
4,509 Americans have been killed in the Iraq war. 30,182 have been wounded.
Hmm, I was mistaken, here are the figures I have found.
150,000 troops stormed Normandy beaches. About 2,500 GI's died on the beaches and 2,600 paratroopers died. And 3,100 Germans died.
On its Web site, the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, England, says an estimated 2,500 Allied troops died. The U.S. Army Center of Military History (search) in Washington, D.C., numbers 6,036 American casualties, including wounded and missing. The Heritage Foundation in Washington estimates 4,900 dead.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Ronald Reagan
Originally posted by MeanWillieGreen: Both of my grandfathers were WWII veterans - one was a flight instructor and one was a tail-gunner that was shot down and spent 18 months in a German prison camp. An amazing generation that we can only aspire to be.
i know the history of my 2 grandfathers and my great uncle on my fathers side. my grandfather on my mothers side served in the Aleutian Islands, my dads father was a flight instructor like your granddad and his brother was a bombardier and was awarded a distinguished flying cross after his lead plane flew and completed a bomb run.
DAMN, Im Thirsty! I want a beer, how bout you? You want a beer?
Always will remember our troops and what they did for our country.
I wish the leaders of our country could look back and see what it is like to come together for common goal. Instead we divide, and try to overthrow the decisions of of our president and leaders, bad choices or not, because a certain party disagrees. nice. not to mention how our media portrays the current war.
You have to let those stogies age.
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