Let us not forget D-Day 72 years on
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this^Let us not forget the anniversary of D-Day in which Canada played a significant role.
Thanks aardvark154. I am ashamed to say I did not remember.....................I am proud to say I knew two men who went in on D-Day 1, as they modestly pointed out. Their stories shared on many fishing trips were both horrific and heroic. I will not go into details. They went in on Gold Beach, not Juno and they only met each other many years later. It was a priviledge to sit quietly on the side and listen to two warriors share their experiences. There was no boasting. There was some "gallows humour" which I took as a way they found of coping with memories. And there were long moments of silence where I can only imagine what they thought and the memories they could only share with another soldier who had bee there.
Have a whisky for all those guys tonight! I will.
Have a whisky for all those guys tonight! I will.
My late father was in one of the Divisions which came in later, although still over the beaches. He was very, very much as the men you describe. They were far from the drunken boasting of legion halls.Thanks aardvark154. I am ashamed to say I did not remember.....................I am proud to say I knew two men who went in on D-Day 1, as they modestly pointed out. Their stories shared on many fishing trips were both horrific and heroic. I will not go into details. They went in on Gold Beach, not Juno and they only met each other many years later. It was a priviledge to sit quietly on the side and listen to two warriors share their experiences. There was no boasting. There was some "gallows humour" which I took as a way they found of coping with memories. And there were long moments of silence where I can only imagine what they thought and the memories they could only share with another soldier who had bee there.
Have a whisky for all those guys tonight! I will.
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He would never watch movies such as the Saving Private Ryan they cut far to close to the bone.
Further as an adult I understand far better his comments about an acquaintance who had been a German POW (Stalag Luft) who absolutely despised the television show Hogan's Heros.
Leave your political BS out of this and learn to have a moment of respect.If this happened to-day the liberal lefties would accuse the U.S. of invading France and bombing innocent civilians.
Bless them all, the long, the short and the tall. They charged the beaches facing withering machine gun fire from the enemy. They are indeed the "greatest generation", my parent's generation.
I've amended the post.Leave your political BS out of this and learn to have a moment of respect.
I doubt very much the youth of today who are the ages of those who were at Normandy and Dieppe the "practice" invasion would do what these boys did back then
Thank you. There's a time and place to get political. Honoring those that sacrificed their lives for others is not one of them.I've amended the post.
I agree. In a few short years we will have no survivors of WWII living on this planet. We should never forget their sacrifice for freedom.Thank you. There's a time and place to get political. Honoring those that sacrificed their lives for others is not one of them.
