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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
+1 WOW! Look at the top level commendations/awards/medals those folks have earned. SF ... |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65750 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
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. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks. And mine. I do not wish to contemplate the world had they failed. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65750 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
To the Men & Women of that generation - My thanks. 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. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Those people made this world for us. Forever thankful! |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Not many left as the years roll by, so here's to their memory..... 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 Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Thomas Send message Joined: 9 Dec 11 Posts: 1499 Credit: 1,345,576 RAC: 0 |
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) |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Not many left as the years roll by, so here's to their memory..... Donald.......a fine post, and sadly, true enough. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65750 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
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. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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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