No mention of D-Day here

[Bob Thompson]

or anywhere else for that matter.

Not scolding, just observing.
We should however, all take time to remember.

One of the local stations here has always played "The longest day" in the past, but not today. Not a WWII movie to be seen on any station.
It's just odd


And yes,This is the same post I made on another forum.

[MoparNorm]

Sorry Bob, that's usually my job and I failed this year, shame on me. A lot of great men participated in that effort and very few survive to this day.

[NNICKB]

Good to hear from Norm again. It's been awhile.

When I was a kid there was a family up the street whose dad was wounded at D-day. He was the nicest guy and you'd never know this about him...he certainly never talked about it. He passed away about 25 years ago, and I was a pallbearer at his funeral. What an honor.

[Gordon Maney]

Americans are too concerned about the new iPhone. Sarcasm intended.

It is hard to comprehend the scale and intensity of the Normandy invasion. I have read much about it and come away feeling inadequate to properly honor those who gave their lives in support of our country.

Thank you for recognizing them.

[Bob Thompson]

Sorry Bob, that's usually my job and I failed this year, shame on me. A lot of great men participated in that effort and very few survive to this day.

Very nice to hear from you Norm. I have missed your particular brand of drivel.
Please enlighten us as to your operational status. We hope to hear or at least see more of you here.

I would have called , but I lost your number a couple phones back.

And again, I did not mean to scold anyone here. I'm fully certain that this group would never forget the sacrifice made on June, 6, 1944 and for the balance of WWII . Much was made of WWII vets over the Memorial day holiday, and rightly so. I just feel that D-Day is something apart and should be recognized by the population at large.

[Gsmith]

It is odd, it seems like this year with all of the problems we face has caused many people to not realize all the sacrifices made by millions. It just amazes me the courage it took to come ashore on the invasion beaches as so many did.

[NNICKB]

It is odd, it seems like this year with all of the problems we face has caused many people to not realize all the sacrifices made by millions. It just amazes me the courage it took to come ashore on the invasion beaches as so many did.

It also makes me think about how we are squandering what these men died for. These were not men who would borrow money and expect their children to pay it back.

Anyway, as I mentioned, there were a lot of World War II guys in the neighborhood when I was a kid. Most of them were fathers of large families. Not much was said about the war, but, you know, stuff had a way of coming out. It was hard to believe that the middle aged guy cutting the grass around his split level once paratroopered behind enemy lines to organize partisans for the liberation of their country. Or flew a divebomber in the Pacific theater.

I will NEVER forget, however, the conversation I had a few years ago with an elderly vet who I think was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He was a friend of my grandparents and he starting talking to me at a fish dinner put on by the American Legion. He just wouldn't stop talking, and I didn't want him to.

He told me that at one point during the war, he was pinned in a foxhole and surrounded by enemy fire. Some soldiers broke through the line driving a halftrack and pulled up to his foxhole. One of the guys reached down and pulled him up into the bed. As this was happening, a bullet struck his helmet and ricocheted into the rescuing soldier, killing him instantly. The halftrack then transported him back through the line, to safety.

The old gentleman had tears in his eyes at this point, and the way he told me the story I felt I was there. He then told me that immediately after he was discharged he traveled to Florida, looked up the soldier's family, and told them what happened, how the soldier had died saving his life. For sixty years, he kept contact with the family, a thousand miles away, visiting with them from time to time.

He's gone now, hopefully reunited with his buddy, in a better place...