Not yet we haven't. The day that it passes out of living memory will be a sad day indeed.

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D-Day! Will always be remembered!

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We'll know when it's been forgotten, when WWIII starts.
Already, fascism is raising its head, in Hungary, with tirades
against the Jews. A head-shaker. . .

My uncle served with Gen. Patton, and helped liberate those camps --
he wouldn't talk about it (certainly).

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My Dad was a Medic in the 368th Medical, which was I gather attached to or a part of the 3rd Army, My Mom said He came home a changed Man(He didn't trust many Doctors after the war, I have My suspicions as to why, but they're unconfirmed, since I don't know where in Germany His orders took Him), He also didn't say anything, except to My sister in law who was an RN, He figured I wouldn't understand and that She would, Outside of His rank and about where He was deployed, I don't know much, some I got from My Sister in law and some from His letters to My Mom which included a few pics, He was recommended for 2 commendations for His paperwork on Allied and POW patients, He was in N.Africa, Sicily, Anzio, N.France and Occupied Germany until 1946, when He was sent home, He'd signed up in Feb 1942 of course and wasn't a draftee.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Not forgotten. All week long, can't turn on the TV without hearing about some Special Programing, or all the World Leaders going to Normandy for the Memorial services. I think I'm looking forward to next week when the hype and hoopla is over.

None of the VSO Posts I belong to made a big deal over it. We remembered quietly. Some of our Comrades, who were there, work at NOT remembering. My VFW Comrade, Sgt. Vito, was in the Graves Resgistration Company that Collected, Identified, and Buried those who did not survive the day. After 70 years, he remembers, all too well......

We who served, we remember. We remember, and honor, those who went before us, who set the standard, who led the way for us to follow. And long after the last of them gets their Final Orders, we will remember. Remember, and pray that if/when the time comes, there will be others like them. like us, who will stand up and fight for what is right, what is good, so that everyone can live in peace and freedom.

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Donald
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Here in the UK the BBC covered all the various events to commemorate.

I noted that several of the other TV channels, like Quest had D-Day documentaries.

As it was 70 years I do not believe in the UK you could have forgotten

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http://www.businessinsider.com/cbc-is-tweeting-the-d-day-invasion-2014-6

Thanks to you all for our freedom!

CC

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Thanks to you all for our freedom!

CC

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rOZZ
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http://www.businessinsider.com/cbc-is-tweeting-the-d-day-invasion-2014-6

Thanks to you all for our freedom!

CC

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At least, we (Allies) learned, after WWII: The Marshall Plan.

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God bless all who serve, and have served; especially those that paid the final price. Freedom is NEVER free; but, it is worth the price.

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TimeLord04
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Correct, freedoms price is usually blood, as freedom is rarely given freely.

Plus freedom is not unlimited, otherwise there would be no laws, people would take what they want and kill whomever was in their way.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

D Day lives on in the media, but big chunks of history are slipping from memory. My father was a D Day Dodger.

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I just finished a good book -- "Ordinary Heroes", by Scott Turow.

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My Dad was in a Quebec city hospital
recovering from a plane crash in 1944
and the first few months of 1945....

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My great-grandfather was too young to serve in WWI so he stole the German's chickens:) In WWII, he was too old to serve but then he hid Jews in the attic. I used to love to listen to his stories when I was a kid. He died when I was 13.

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My Uncle flew a P39 with the USAAF in the Pacific, He was a Warrant Officer, My Sister in law had a relative who was in a bomber, who became a POW for a while. My Mom worked in an Airplane Factory, as did a lot of American Women during the war.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

My father was too old to serve, in combat. However, being a civil engineer,
his services were employed in Recife, Brazil, where an airstrip was built/
improved, for larger US planes. There was a "southern" front to WWII, and
part of it was used to keep an eye on the Germans, who had ships in Argentina,
amongst other places.

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My Canadian Uncle went ashore on D-Day but after the beech was taken. He was one of the first across the Rhine, near Zanten. But suffered badly after the War, from what we would now call PTSD, because his unit was one of the first into Bergen Belsen.

Not sure when my Dad crossed the channel, he was involved with the Mulberry harbour on Gold beech.

My Granddad was Royal Navy, served and decorated in both WW's. In WW2 was on Tribal class Destroyer HMS Nubian, which was one of the highest honoured ships during WW2.
NORWAY 1940 - CALABRIA 1940 - LIBYA 1940 - MEDITERRANEAN 1941 - SFAX 1941 - MATAPAN 1941 - GREECE 1941 - CRETE 1941 - MALTA CONVOYS 1941 - SICILY 1943 - SALERNO 1943 - ARCTIC 1944 - BURMA 1944-45.

Was also present at the Japanese Surrender.

A Tribal Class destroyer HMCS Haida has been preserved and is at Hamilton, Ontario.

My Grandfather served in the first World War. My Grandmother lost a Brother then.
In 1932 he was elected the Mayor for Zweibruecken, the youngest ever Mayor at the time in Germany. When Hitler came along, he was forced to join the Nazi Party. At that time he comichined a special desk with secret cubby holes. The Nazis never discovered them. That desk got a special ceremony a few years back that my Mother and her Brother attended.
He served until 1945, being in a Civil Service not sure how much action he saw.
I will have to reread his Biography.
In 1944 my Oma lost her Brother on the Russian Front. Verschollen. My Cousin never met his Father and to this date, we have no grave site.
My Opa's reward was, to be interned by the Americans for two years, as was his Brother, which spend some time in Georgia.
I have a souvenir from that time, a little nick knack container made out of Spam pull tabs.
My hometown saw some bombing hits, because it was the only direct rail link to Paris at the time.
More forthcoming once I read both of their biographies again.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

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