D-Day - Something Ought To Be Said

[GeauxLSU]

My father and his buddy signed up together and went. He was a great man and father. There was a stoic duty and simple masculinity around them that would never comprehend today's "safe spaces" generation. There is a reason we only live so long....

 

[Dodge man]

Amazing short documentary if you have the time to spare. They’re not that long.

Here’s the second short interview. When he describes the camps at 9:44 you’ll gets chill.

 

[Granite3]

Uncle Guy rode a glider in, made it till the Bulge, wounded by rifle fire, lost a few toes to frostbite. Never could tolerate the cold after that.

They were Men back then.

 

[Joab]

Don't worry Google has Doodle for Google US Winner listed today in remembrance

 

[User170512]

Don't worry Google has Doodle for Google US Winner listed today in remembrance

 

[Hayata]

Amazing time in history.

Pure guts and determination.

Thank God that such men lived.

 

[Gixxer]

Don't worry Google has Doodle for Google US Winner listed today in remembrance

I saw that when I was looking for the pics I posted. Google never fails to disappoint on what it considers is worth putting on their homepage.

 

[BillsCamino]

I think China is on to something...
Both Google and Facebook are blocked/banned in China.

 

[diacnik]

My father and his buddy signed up together and went. He was a great man and father. There was a stoic duty and simple masculinity around them that would never comprehend today's "safe spaces" generation. There is a reason we only live so long....

Well said

 

[Gixxer]

Being in a glider with a jeep would scare the **** out of me in itself!....didn't know that was a thing....

I either read or watched in a documentary that the first casualty of D-Day was actually one of the men that came in on one of the gliders and was shot once the fighting kicked off. Early hours of the morning before the amphibious assault began.

The story of the gliders on D-Day are unbelievable. I highly recommend reading up on it.

Landed behind enemy lines and were supposed to sabotage the Germans ability to reinforce the beaches. Fighting off tanks and machine gun nests with no supporting force. Some serious grit those men had.