I am very gratified when I read such supportive comments coming from Armericans. I have become so inured against many Americans for what I see as small mindedness and narrow thinking and then along comes a positive, constructive comment such as yours and my faith and respect for Americans is restored. I say all this with utmost sincerity and trying to avoid sounding patronizing.
I agree completely with you Suzy! As an adult, my one big wish was the world would get kinder and there would never be another world war. With trump, a total dumbhead, our own country is falling apart!!!
Anyway. This was the experience of the Greatest Generation that is defined as the age cohort born from 1901 to 1927. Here is the link to the wikipedia article about how this age cohort is defined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation Most of that generation has died off. A great number of people from that generation probably did not want to talk about what they experienced. I bet it was very traumatic for them to witness people being blown up by grenades, land mines and other explosives.
My Dad was a 26 year old Major when he landed at Easy Red Beach in Normandy. We have gone back to Normandy twice. The last was for the 70th anniversary: it was very moving. He died at age 99 in 2017. I know he would have appreciated this description of D-Day.
War is a horrible thing and all veterans deserve our allegiance and gratitude. I come from a family of soldiers. G-G grandfather WW1, Gfather WWII, Father Korean War, uncle Vietnam, Me Persian Gulf 1, and several other deployments not declared wars. My point? I think that when we serve we pass it down and when we come home we need to be supported because it's awful transitioning.
That’s why it’s so disgusting that Trump calls service members “Suckers” ! He wants tobe President aka Dictator and this is how he feels about our Armed Services! He should never darken the door of the Oval Office again with a despicable attitude like that! Dictator indeed! He’s simply not Presidential material.
It feels like those dark days are upon us again and our country is doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is what happens when the teaching of history in our schools is scrubbed of all of its gritty details. Sometimes history isn't pretty, but it always teaches us lessons to live by.
I just try to be rational, after having experienced a lot of things in my long life. And I do care about people. We are all on this little blue water covered rock together. And we will not survive if we do not work together.
Maybe no one “yet” is worse than Hitler but what’s coming out of Trump’s mouth is pretty bad. For all we know he has much worse plans in the works, why take a chance? He’s a fascist dictator waiting in the wings and the Republicans are his rabid dogs.
I was at this beach ten years ago. It was cold, but quiet and calm. I was with my Dad, who was flying overhead that day. He died in 2021 at age 99. Thank God for men like him, and let's keep hoping "Never Again."
I visited this beach ten years ago. The weather was the same as on D-Day, though it was quiet and calm. I was with my Dad, who was flying overhead that day. He passed away at age 99 in 2021. Thank God for men like him. And let's keep hoping "Never Again".
Dan, to this day more than 20 years after he passed away I still have no idea what my Dad saw and experienced in the European theater of war. He refused to speak of it, constantly deflecting questions to tell us (his children, nieces, nephews) of the cities and the people of England, Scotland, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain.
My Dad was in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor on12/7 1941. He was in the Pacific theater the entire war a Naval officer. He never spoke about the war until he was in his late 80’s and only a little. He died at 90. He even had a nervous breakdown after the war. He was an engineer in the engine room aboard the ship while kamikazes were crashing into the ship.
I am very gratified when I read such supportive comments coming from Armericans. I have become so inured against many Americans for what I see as small mindedness and narrow thinking and then along comes a positive, constructive comment such as yours and my faith and respect for Americans is restored. I say all this with utmost sincerity and trying to avoid sounding patronizing.
I agree completely with you Suzy! As an adult, my one big wish was the world would get kinder and there would never be another world war. With trump, a total dumbhead, our own country is falling apart!!!
Anyway. This was the experience of the Greatest Generation that is defined as the age cohort born from 1901 to 1927. Here is the link to the wikipedia article about how this age cohort is defined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation Most of that generation has died off. A great number of people from that generation probably did not want to talk about what they experienced. I bet it was very traumatic for them to witness people being blown up by grenades, land mines and other explosives.
My Dad was a 26 year old Major when he landed at Easy Red Beach in Normandy. We have gone back to Normandy twice. The last was for the 70th anniversary: it was very moving. He died at age 99 in 2017. I know he would have appreciated this description of D-Day.
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We will never forget. Never.
War is a horrible thing and all veterans deserve our allegiance and gratitude. I come from a family of soldiers. G-G grandfather WW1, Gfather WWII, Father Korean War, uncle Vietnam, Me Persian Gulf 1, and several other deployments not declared wars. My point? I think that when we serve we pass it down and when we come home we need to be supported because it's awful transitioning.
That’s why it’s so disgusting that Trump calls service members “Suckers” ! He wants tobe President aka Dictator and this is how he feels about our Armed Services! He should never darken the door of the Oval Office again with a despicable attitude like that! Dictator indeed! He’s simply not Presidential material.
It feels like those dark days are upon us again and our country is doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is what happens when the teaching of history in our schools is scrubbed of all of its gritty details. Sometimes history isn't pretty, but it always teaches us lessons to live by.
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I just try to be rational, after having experienced a lot of things in my long life. And I do care about people. We are all on this little blue water covered rock together. And we will not survive if we do not work together.
No one is worse than Hitler. Trump is small time and headed for jail.
Maybe no one “yet” is worse than Hitler but what’s coming out of Trump’s mouth is pretty bad. For all we know he has much worse plans in the works, why take a chance? He’s a fascist dictator waiting in the wings and the Republicans are his rabid dogs.
I was at this beach ten years ago. It was cold, but quiet and calm. I was with my Dad, who was flying overhead that day. He died in 2021 at age 99. Thank God for men like him, and let's keep hoping "Never Again."
I visited this beach ten years ago. The weather was the same as on D-Day, though it was quiet and calm. I was with my Dad, who was flying overhead that day. He passed away at age 99 in 2021. Thank God for men like him. And let's keep hoping "Never Again".
Hope not 6/6 1944 was a brutal day and we have a wanna be President who calls people like your Dad suckers for being in the service. Disgusting!
Dan, to this day more than 20 years after he passed away I still have no idea what my Dad saw and experienced in the European theater of war. He refused to speak of it, constantly deflecting questions to tell us (his children, nieces, nephews) of the cities and the people of England, Scotland, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain.
My Dad was in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor on12/7 1941. He was in the Pacific theater the entire war a Naval officer. He never spoke about the war until he was in his late 80’s and only a little. He died at 90. He even had a nervous breakdown after the war. He was an engineer in the engine room aboard the ship while kamikazes were crashing into the ship.
I was six months old on this date. But I had cousins in WW2. I have traveled the beaches from Dieppe through Normandy to Brest, as well as the WW1 front lines. Canadians too were very much in the action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Scottish_Regiment_(Princess_Mary%27s)
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