75 Years Ago Tomorrow
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Truly the "Greatest Generation." We will not see their like again.
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More. How cool for those two 90+ year olds to again parachute in. The memories it must have evoked.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48536906
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48536906
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On Its 75th Anniversary – June 6, 1944
Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic,
our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true, give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings…
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home - fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas – whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them – help us,
Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice…”
Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic,
our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true, give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings…
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home - fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas – whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them – help us,
Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice…”
AMEN, and those of us at home did there part to support the war. We grew vegetables in Victory Gardens, saved aluminum foil, string, etc. All food items where rationed so the troops got the best food to eat. As a kid my buddies and I watched for enemy planes using a chart we ordered to do our part. We had meat once a week for Sunday dinner, Spam. The kids learned how to help other kids handle the grief when the telegram came that their father had been killed in action. Everyone knew what the star flags in the front window of neighbors home meant.
We huddled around our radio to hear FDR tell us of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
Some talk of a military industrial complex but Japan felt it’s full fury.
For some World War Two is history in books and on tv, some lived it.
We huddled around our radio to hear FDR tell us of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
Some talk of a military industrial complex but Japan felt it’s full fury.
For some World War Two is history in books and on tv, some lived it.
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From a Billy Ray Cyrus song (not specifically about WW II): "All gave some....Some Gave All"! My Dad was one of the lucky ones who gave "some" and came home in one piece, but he did give up 5 years of his life, most of it spent in England being almost constantly bombed. He was originally ordered up for the D day invasion of Juno Beach, but his orders were changed at the last minute. They decided that he was more valuable as an instructor training drivers for tanks, trucks, and motorcycles, and escorting road convoys of supplies throughout Britain.
God Bless them all, and we must always remember.
God Bless them all, and we must always remember.
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Patton may not have been PC, but I have never heard anything stating that he wasnt instrumental in winning the war.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses.
Not everybody that serves in wartime or peace is a hero, those that served are known by their buddies for what they were.
True that a great many just did their job and that is amazing in itself ....and it should be held in the highest regard from a grateful nation and world for that war and any conflict.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses.
Not everybody that serves in wartime or peace is a hero, those that served are known by their buddies for what they were.
True that a great many just did their job and that is amazing in itself ....and it should be held in the highest regard from a grateful nation and world for that war and any conflict.
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