Comments on: D-Day, 80 years later

By: Imsorrysteve57i hope

Imsorrysteve57i hope — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:53:14 +0000

I’m not impressed by medals. Sometimes the deserving get them. Sometimes the merely connected.

By: Richard+Aubrey

Richard+Aubrey — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:39:33 +0000

Born in 45 to an Infantry soldier. Three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star.
Grew up in a post-war subdivision.
Pretty much, every one of my friends and acquaintances had a vet for a father.
And the Scout leaders, and the school janitors and bus drivers. Gym teachers. Coaches.
Didn’t get the privilege of growing up among such men.

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:30:25 +0000

Seventeen days after D-Day the Red Army on June 23, 1944 launched an offensive against the German Army Group Center in Belarus called “Operation Bagration” that was so massive that it ripped the guts out of the Nazis that 28 out of 34 German Divisions were utterly destroyed (Army Group Center was more powerful that the German forces in the West). On July 17, 1944 the Red Army paraded 57,000 German prisoners through the streets of Moscow (called the March of the Vanquished) to emphasize the magnitude of the Nazi defeat. D-Day combined with Operation Bagration (as well as the failed assassination attempt on Hitler’s life of July 20, 1944) symbolized more than ever that the Third Reich was doomed to utter destruction. Too many people never heard about “Bagration” but it was Germany’s greatest defeat of World War II even more than Stalingrad was.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:23:33 +0000

Jarhead:

Feel welcome to comment more often!

By: Imsorrysteve57i hope

Imsorrysteve57i hope — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:31:00 +0000

War is a young man’s game. And it’s not a game. I trained hard but in my 60s I can’t keep up the pace

By: Imsorrysteve57i hope

Imsorrysteve57i hope — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:22:43 +0000

Jarhead, it pains me too. I think I sometimes come across too full of myself. I’m not. I have a pretty accurate opinion of myself. It’s necessary, yes? It’s unforgivable for a braggart to put the troops lives at risk

By: that guy

that guy — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:40:02 +0000

• Visited Normandy the summer after 2nd grade.

• My memories – even at that young age – are very similar to what others have shared; especially the impact of the rows & rows of headstones and what that represented.

• As I have grown older, my respect for the Greatest Generation – which was already significant – has only increased.

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:28:04 +0000

both longest day and bridge too far, were based on cornelius ryans work, we found out recently, that market garden was not merely because of British incompetence, but that one agent in their midst, if memory serves me, Anthony Blunt, the Soviet agent that served longest in the shadow of the crown

in the long run did it matter, no but it tells you of the callousness, of Koba, to sacrifice the supposedly Allied forces, but then again he purged the top of his officer corps, based on some phony pretext, he subscribed to Lenin’s maxim the worse the better,

By: Jarhead

Jarhead — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:59:38 +0000

My first cousin was on the first wave on Omaha beach I was born in 1945 he was 18 at the time. You talk about toxic masculinity he was the man. By the time I was 12 he was my idol. As he grew older the memories began to over take him. His drinking became his passion he died before the age of 60.He is the reason I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1963. I am now 79 I have so many medical problems from 22 years of active duty cannot list them all thanks to a loving wife of 61 years she keeps me going. The reason for this post is to say I don’t regret one moment of my service. I love this country,my family, my fellow Americans. It pains me to hear these young Americans to cuss this United States.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:22:28 +0000

One thing that bugs me about the Longest Day is no matter what bagpipe music the Brit officer (Lord Lovat/Peter Lawford IIRC) calls for the score is the same like we wouldn’t notice.