June 6 D-day

[DS]

Most kids don't realize what went down on this date it 1944.
Americans,Canadians and british troops set forth across the english channel to stop the germans .Thank god they did.They said that from the air,there was so many boats,it looked as though you could walk across.
Freedom comes at a price.

 

[fethrs]

I am going to watch a specail about D-Day on the History Channel right now.

 

[DS]

I am going to watch a specail about D-Day on the History Channel right now.

Do IT...it was amazing

 

[Scanthis]

D-Day was a great sacrafice by so many great men. Over 4,000 Americans died on that day alone. I wonder if the American public would ever support such a day again. Hopefully they never will have to.

 

[bigbrownhen]

I read today an artice in our local paper about interviews with local survivors from D-day. What those brave soldiers witnessed and survived to achieve a must win battle. It was all or nothing. What a time in our history.
I pray we are never called upon to see a war like that again, but if we are, may we be as brave and determined as they were so that we may enjoy the freedoms many of us take forgranted today. They are called the greatest generation for a reason, there is much to learn from them still.

 

[cachsux]

My uncle was only 19 when he parachuted into Normandy.

He had stones at that age that I still haven't gathered at age 49.

 

[joeboodog]

My Dad was there. He went ashore two days after the initial invasion. He said there was so many planes in the air the sky was dark. He also said there were so many troops in England that they joked that the island would sink.

 

[moreluck]

 

[Indecisi0n]

It's also National Donut Day http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/...-national-donut-day-in-the-best-way-possible/

 

[Indecisi0n]

My uncle was only 19 when he parachuted into Normandy.

He had stones at that age that I still haven't gathered at age 49.

To be able to do that at 19 is unthinkable.

 

[PT Stewie]

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

 

[rod]

Those were some brave people back then. That was back when the politicians knew how to fight a war. ALL or nothing.

 

[PT Stewie]

 

[cachsux]

93 year old D-Day vet repeats his Normandy jump.


http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/d-day-vet-repeats-his-parachute-jump-into-normandy-at-a-1586971834/ matthardigree?utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_twitter&utm_source=jalopnik_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[cachsux]

To be able to do that at 19 is unthinkable.

He jumped at 19. He went in for training at 17, having lied about his age.

At 17 I was trying to get girls to let me undo their bra.

 

[moreluck]

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

 

[oldngray]

Ike's "just in case" failure message.

http://www.businessinsider.com/d-day-in-case-of-failure-letter-by-general-eisenhower-2012-6

 

[oldngray]

An 89-year-old British Royal Navy vet was so determined to get to D-Day commemorations in Normandy Friday that he snuck away from his nursing home without warning and boarded a bus for France.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...sing-from-nursing-home-found-at-d-day-events/

 

[Operational needs]

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

An American flag is placed in the sand of Omaha Beach, western France, Friday, June 6, 2014.