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Post by steiny on Apr 23, 2008 20:10:37 GMT -5
My buddy and I just got in from a little evening fishing outing with a couple +/- 85 year old dudes. Took the old boys out, set them up in lawn chairs, caught a few, fried them up and had bluegill sandwiches for shore side supper.
One of the guys was on the 2nd wave at Omaha beach on D-Day. Pretty neat to get those guys out. You've got to help them around, un-snag their tangles, one can't hear, etc. Hope somebody will do the same for me, if I make it that long. They were tickled to death.
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Post by Decatur on Apr 23, 2008 21:20:25 GMT -5
You did your good deed for the day. Good on ya!
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Post by fftce67 on Apr 24, 2008 10:01:26 GMT -5
cool to hear that. Wow to be sitting with someone that was there at D-Day must have been informative.
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Post by indianahick on Apr 24, 2008 10:39:24 GMT -5
Good for you Steiny. Man if you could get the one that was on the second wave at Omaha to talk about it and be able to record it somehow would really be tremendous. While history has told us it was horrible I would like to hear about it from someone that was actually there. Somehow I think that their rendition is going to be somewhat different from history's.
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Post by firstwd on Apr 24, 2008 11:32:21 GMT -5
After listening to my uncle talk about it before he died several years ago, I'm not sure you really want to know what it was like. It might be a serious wake up call to those who constantly whine about our current situation and the number of US Soilders lost in Iraq if they were compared to the number lost D-Day.
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Post by fftce67 on Apr 24, 2008 21:57:39 GMT -5
I know somewhat what it was there I participated in the 60th anniversary while stationed in Italy my unt jumped into St. marie eglise (sp) for it then marched into the town. We visited the grave site of the men who died there and even spoke to some who survived. The monument that is erected is a nice one. The musuem shows just where everything happened.
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