Happy D-Day
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If I recollect right, it's the day several hundred thousand men got together with the express intent of murdering each other.
They certainly succeeded.
They certainly succeeded.
Oh, you mean the part about how wonderful and glorious it was?
Sorry, man, I've been in a war (though admittedly nothing like the scale of WWII, or even D-Day). There's no wonder, there's no glory. Just a lot of death and destruction.
Glorify it as much as you like. I respectfully disagree.
No I didn't see that part mentioned.
Me too. You're not the only one.
You left out pure terror, filth, and utter exhaustion. And the only time before and since where I could not stop my right leg from shaking so hard.
Nobody glorified it... we just said we did not forget the meaning.
I was in Europe for three and a half years with the RCAF after the war. I talked to people who were ground under Nazi jackboots. To these people,
the D-day invasion was salvation. Hitler had to be stopped, and he was. D-day was the first step. To me, the graves of hundreds of thousands of young men make it neccessary to remember just how much D-day cost us all.
the D-day invasion was salvation. Hitler had to be stopped, and he was. D-day was the first step. To me, the graves of hundreds of thousands of young men make it neccessary to remember just how much D-day cost us all.
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You would have rather the world lay down and let Hitler take over? I don't think anybody wants war but sometimes there is no choice in what must be done.
Especially in places like England. The whole of the South of England - from the coast of which the huge invasion force set off - resembled a large army camp.
My uncle had the pleasure of kicking Rommel's azz all the way from Morocco clear across North Africa, into Italy and back over the Alps.
No, that's not the meaning of it. The meaning of it is that 69 years ago the men of our parents' and grandparent's generation went overseas to free the world from one of the most monstrous evils it had ever seen. And they succeeded, at great and tragic cost, but it had to be done.
Its not about glory and the wonderful aspects of fighting a war, ITS ABOUT RESPECT,
These young men were scared as hell, crawling about and over bodies and limbs and
dead things everywhere. They didn't do it for glory, they did because it was the only
way to rid the world of something most sinister. They also went ashore in Sicily, and
Italy and and North Africa. The went Island to Island in Asia for the same reason.
D Day was the climax of the battle for freedom and a world not in the dark ages.
And yes it was done so some people could belittle the effort because that also in part
of the democracy we enjoy today, because of their efforts on this day in 1944.
Anyone who is disrespectful toward the efforts of WWII Vets makes my blood boil I guess.
I truly appreciate the efforts my father and so many of his friends made.
I thank them for the effort they put forth and wonder if I would have the courage to do the
same under such formidable circumstances. It is a question we should all ask ourselves
then we can belittle the effort. Of course if we could answer that question one way or the
other we would understand it and would no longer wish to make such remarks of criticism
These young men were scared as hell, crawling about and over bodies and limbs and
dead things everywhere. They didn't do it for glory, they did because it was the only
way to rid the world of something most sinister. They also went ashore in Sicily, and
Italy and and North Africa. The went Island to Island in Asia for the same reason.
D Day was the climax of the battle for freedom and a world not in the dark ages.
And yes it was done so some people could belittle the effort because that also in part
of the democracy we enjoy today, because of their efforts on this day in 1944.
Anyone who is disrespectful toward the efforts of WWII Vets makes my blood boil I guess.
I truly appreciate the efforts my father and so many of his friends made.
I thank them for the effort they put forth and wonder if I would have the courage to do the
same under such formidable circumstances. It is a question we should all ask ourselves
then we can belittle the effort. Of course if we could answer that question one way or the
other we would understand it and would no longer wish to make such remarks of criticism
Im sure most of the people who took part would have been perfectly willing to stay at home and pursue a normal life if it had been an option. Unfortunately Hitler and his buddies made that impossible.
What "it " is being defined here, happy d-day or the war? I have news for you, evil was not even scratched, the happy day came and went and war was barely aware ,if at all, that it had ever happened. The monster still walks free among us. All the death and destruction was good for the economies and continue to solidify important positions. Sixty nine years and not a single inch forward for humanity. They failed us everyone of them and that is the waste of war. To believe otherwise is to believe they are better dead than still among us now.
Rommel was dead long before they got to the alps.
Hitler and Stalin are dead. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire no longer exist. The concentration camps that are still standing are museums rather than factories for murder. Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and the mentally ill live without fear of arrest or state sponsored persecution and murder. The world still has its problems but its a much better world now than it was back then.