D Day

[oscardeuce]

Pause to remember the sacrifice. I had a great uncle there.
lest we forget.....

 

[darthtang aw]

 

[oscardeuce]

I am actually sad my zombie thread has more interest that this thread. Then again President Obama spent the day with Hollywood types rather than remember the sacrifices if the day.

 

[mantisman51]

It's hard for me to talk about. My uncle was there the afternoon of the invasion and I met and spoke with a retired soldier who was in the first wave on the beach. What they told me makes it hard to write or think about without tearing up and getting emotional. All I can write is that the men who landed were thrown into the coastal defenses like a bare fist smashing into an anvil. I would like to think I would have had the courage like them, but I really can't fathom the bravery and determination those (mostly) kids had.

 

[ironeagle2006]

The Grandfather I am Named for on June 6th was in Ball Turret of a B-24 on a Bombing Run over his Target that Day for the 15th Air Force. Came back to Base with 1 Engine Shot out and 2 Crew members Wounded and another DEAD. He died in 1971 before I was born I never knew him. The man I knew as my Grandfather on my dads side was somewhere in the Pacific hauling Wounded Sailers back to Pearl Harbor after the Latest Island Hopping Invasion.
My moms Dad well lets just say he was up to his Armpits in High Explosives he was one of the people that made Explosives during the War. He helped perfect Torpex before the war and was Excempt from the draft for some reason. My mom never could figure out Why he did not go to war like so many others.

 

[oscardeuce]

My grandfathers spent the war stateside too. One was born in 1906 and too old for the initial drafts. Started working at Marathon oil in Ohio. The other made TNT in Ohio too.
We were lucky. TNT grandpa's brother landed in Normany on D day.