I think every generation has its misfits and its solid citizens. I don't buy into the idea that the generations that come after our own are any less serious about their rights and obligations as citizens and members of the human race.That was a monumental endevor that saved the world from a dismal future and it should never be forgotten...Unfortunately we are now in the entitled generation who don't care how they got to the idea they are owed everything in life...so they don't care. Guess the media goes along with them...
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June 6th, 1944
- Thread starter Bob Denman
- Start date
Trickie Dick
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something you understand..:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:Unfortunately a lot of people are watching main stream media and are clueless on real news issues. Thank God for FOX..……… I try to help them see the light, but they are really brainwashed and usually beyond help...….... Nothing we can do. They are like a rabbit dog. No hope for them. It's sad...……
ThreeWheels
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WTF ??
Huffington Post is sold to another owner.
I can't access the site unless I submit to their demands and I agree to let them place cookies in my browser.
OK. I guess I'm not going to access the site.
On another note, I'm surprised TCM hasn't run a series of movies about D Day.
RinconRyder
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In the future it would behoove you to refrain from speaking out your ass. Since you don't know me I will fill you in - then go ahead with your inaccurate and inflammatory statements.
I was born in late 1944 - just a week or so after my father was very seriously wounded in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He was an amphibious tank commander during the invasion and lived the remainder of his life with those severe injuries and the pain that goes with them. He had a pit in his upper arm the size of a softball that a Japanese mortar fragment had taken out. The corpsmen had sewn back together as much of his arm as could be found but for the rest of his life this man, who was an accomplished horseman (he originally joined the US Army in 1940 as a member of the 7th Cavalry then was switched to armor later in the war), guitar player, writer, leather and wood worker had to learn to use his one remaining functioning hand. He spent several years at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco relearning to use both arms but particularly his battered right arm.
The single time I ever heard him complain was one night when he dropped his Thermos trying to open our front door. He received a military disability for the rest of his life as a result of that injury. But he was one of the lucky ones he used to say. At least he came home and lived a pretty normal life.
When I was a pre-teen he would invite other vets to our house for dinner or just to play cards. Most seemed pretty normal on the surface but it was easy to tell that some were deeply troubled by what they had gone through. My dad used the term "shell shock" to describe some of them and I never remember them talking about the war except to describe their respective units.
He did share some of his experiences with me, his only son at that time, and unintentionally convinced me I didn't want to be a soldier when the time came. My time came in 1962 just five days after high school graduation when I joined the US Navy and was sent to Viet Nam one year later. We didn't know about Viet Nam then. When I was in high school it was called Indo China. I didn't learn was a quagmire it was until we landed just two weeks before the infamous Gulf of Tonkin attack. I was "lucky" though and left two years later with just a little blue mark in my left shoulder from a mortar round. Had I not been carrying a field radio on my back I likely would have joined my dad in severe injury or worse. I lost one cousin over there, a helo pilot and have had several other close childhood friends die young of injuries during that conflict. My cousin had been in-country only a few weeks. He wasn't lucky. When I got home my country was kind enough to require me to join the active reserve and threaten me with mandatory reactivation. I won't spell out what my answer was as I am sure you can guess.
Suffice to say you do not know what you are talking about and I am absolutely positive you would not have said what you did to my face. I do not want your thanks for serving as it was not my choice. I also don't want any pity for many thousands have suffered much more than I. I would just request you to shut your pie hole about things of which you have no personal knowledge. Your comment was disgraceful.
RinconRyder
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:agree: You were a lot more diplomatic than I would have been ...nojoke
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Holly
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Idiot poster ????????? That's all you got ????? Don't take it out on me because your wife smacks you around, most likely you deserve it...……..
IdahoMtnSpyder
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At least now because of GDPR in the EU they are asking you. A couple of months ago the cookies would have been placed in your browser without asking and you would not have even known it.
ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
Thank you Bob for introducing the thread about a very important subject.
I too, am saddened that this has taken the turn it has. :lecturef_smilie::lecturef_smilie:
I too, am saddened that this has taken the turn it has. :lecturef_smilie::lecturef_smilie:
RinconRyder
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It was covered, briefly, on NBC Nightly News as I am sure elsewhere.
No mention here of RFK's assassination though. Double standard much?
D-day
Hugely symbolic for all the Allies who fought
Until then, after Dunkirk, England had been in dread of Nazi armies crossing the English Channel and invading England ... add in the Blitz and constant bombings, and a huge cheer went up from those living in the uk and all who were fighting the nazi menace - the tide turned, the fight-back on the continent began - and England avoided invasion.
Hugely symbolic for all the Allies who fought
Until then, after Dunkirk, England had been in dread of Nazi armies crossing the English Channel and invading England ... add in the Blitz and constant bombings, and a huge cheer went up from those living in the uk and all who were fighting the nazi menace - the tide turned, the fight-back on the continent began - and England avoided invasion.
ThreeWheels
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Again, I'm having trouble following the arguments because the participants are on my ignore list.
But if we're starting a flame war over this subject, then it may be time to just walk away from the keyboard.
So many other people have left.
There has to be something wrong with people who start an argument in cyberspace as though it were real space.
Let me repeat. There is something SERIOUSLY disturbed with people who argue in cyberspace.
But if we're starting a flame war over this subject, then it may be time to just walk away from the keyboard.
So many other people have left.
There has to be something wrong with people who start an argument in cyberspace as though it were real space.
Let me repeat. There is something SERIOUSLY disturbed with people who argue in cyberspace.
Bob Denman
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:agree: :banghead:
I try to post something to commemorate an important date in the History of the United States Military; and a couple of you guys just have to find ways to muck it up...
Rincon... I get that your Dad was wounded at Leyte Gulf: that certainly adds to the significance of the battle for you and your family.
But that sure doesn't mean that Normandy was any less important to the path to victory... nojoke
mxz600
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kep-up
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I'm with you, Mr. Denman.:bowdown:
RinconRyder
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The threat of invasion ended with Germany's failure to win the Battle of Britain when they could not establish air superiority over the UK. That was approximately two years prior to the invasion at Normandy.
RinconRyder
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I never said the Normandy Invasion was not an important event. No, what matters is that you and a lot of your peers have little or no in depth knowledge of WWII. I did nothing more than correct many of your misconceptions.
Grab the collection of WWII by (RADM) Samuel Eliot Morrison. Virtually all my "facts" are taken from his work.
You're welcome!
Bob Denman
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You're trying to look through a keyhole, and describe the entire elephant that's standing right against the door! nojoke
The War didn't end because Germany lost the Battle of Britain...
They were constantly developing new weapons, and strengthening their grasp on Europe.
It took the concerted efforts of the allies, to stretch their manufacturing capacities to the breaking point.
To a very large part: that started with the D-Day invasion.
The War didn't end because Germany lost the Battle of Britain...
They were constantly developing new weapons, and strengthening their grasp on Europe.
It took the concerted efforts of the allies, to stretch their manufacturing capacities to the breaking point.
To a very large part: that started with the D-Day invasion.
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