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Message 1377667 - Posted: 6 Jun 2013, 21:43:23 UTC

Not many left as the years roll by, so here's to their memory.....

69 years on - one final time

To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks.
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Message 1377676 - Posted: 6 Jun 2013, 21:56:38 UTC - in response to Message 1377667.  

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WOW! Look at the top level commendations/awards/medals those folks have earned.

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Message 1377680 - Posted: 6 Jun 2013, 22:07:42 UTC - in response to Message 1377667.  
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Yeah, this could be their last time, maybe. My Dad wasn't part of the invasion, but He was with a Hospital unit, the US Army 368th Medical, think Radar(MASH), Dad was a clerk and sometimes a gopher, He was issued a 1911 Colt sidearm(pictured with it in a foxhole at one point) and sometimes drove a Jeep from the motor pool and was a Corporal from 1942-1946, N.Africa, Sicily, Anzio, N.France and Occupied Germany up until 1946, He was recommended for 2 commendations for His paperwork on Allied and POW patients. He'd be 95 today.
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Message 1377696 - Posted: 6 Jun 2013, 22:54:16 UTC

To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks.


And mine. I do not wish to contemplate the world had they failed.
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Message 1377703 - Posted: 6 Jun 2013, 23:21:06 UTC - in response to Message 1377696.  
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To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks.


And mine. I do not wish to contemplate the world had they failed.

Me neither, I'd probably not be here if they'd failed, heck My Brother might not have had any siblings. Dad thought it was important enough to volunteer for service sometime after December 7th 1941, but then Dad wasn't drafted, at least that's what I got from His letters and pictures He sent home to Mom, which Mom had kept hidden all those years. My Uncle on My Moms side served in the Pacific Theatre as an aviator in the USAAF as a Warrant Officer(enlisted personnel w/Officer status & Rank, as He could fly), He also volunteered for duty, no one in our family has ever been drafted, at least not yet.
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Message 1377717 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 0:44:29 UTC

Those people made this world for us. Forever thankful!
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Message 1377748 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 2:33:42 UTC - in response to Message 1377667.  

Not many left as the years roll by, so here's to their memory.....

69 years on - one final time

To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks.

Tomorrow (Friday 07 June 2013) I will do my duty and assist with Final Honors for a WWII Submariner who got his Final Orders this past Sunday. He has joined his Shipmates and Comrades on the Staff of the Supreme Commander. I have been sending these fine men and women off at the rate of about 1-2 a week since early March. Their tour of duty is complete, and they are being called home to their reward. We honor them and we thank them, for without their service, their sacrifice, the world would be a much different place than the one we now enjoy. We remember, too, those who came after them. And we pray for those yet to come, for in an imperfect world, we will need their like again.
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Message 1377834 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 6:59:20 UTC

Eternal gratitude of France and french people to all these young americans fallen to the fight for the freedom and which left far from their home to never return.
There are no rather powerful words to thank them.
Signed by a french boy, norman on several generations and born in Saint-Lô (Normandy-Manche)
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Message 1377859 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 7:58:01 UTC - in response to Message 1377748.  

Not many left as the years roll by, so here's to their memory.....

69 years on - one final time

To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks.

Tomorrow (Friday 07 June 2013) I will do my duty and assist with Final Honors for a WWII Submariner who got his Final Orders this past Sunday. He has joined his Shipmates and Comrades on the Staff of the Supreme Commander. I have been sending these fine men and women off at the rate of about 1-2 a week since early March. Their tour of duty is complete, and they are being called home to their reward. We honor them and we thank them, for without their service, their sacrifice, the world would be a much different place than the one we now enjoy. We remember, too, those who came after them. And we pray for those yet to come, for in an imperfect world, we will need their like again.

Donald.......a fine post, and sadly, true enough.
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Message 1378067 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 15:02:22 UTC

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Message 1378074 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 15:12:21 UTC

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Message 1378085 - Posted: 7 Jun 2013, 15:26:24 UTC

it's sad to think that WWII vets are now in their 90's Korean war vets starting to turn 80 and our vietnam vets are almost all senior citizens. I cannot forget their sacrfices and duty to country.


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Message 1382748 - Posted: 19 Jun 2013, 16:44:55 UTC

Another reason why those men & women gave their lives & as more & more from that time period pass away, we should ensure that we take heed of.....

Warning from History

....& make sure it can never happen again.
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