Normandy....

[WILMASBOYL78]

June 6, 1944....Operation Overlord...the allied invasion of Nazi Europe. Many soldiers paid the ultimate price that morning...let's always remember and honor their sacrifice!!

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[ORIGLS6]

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[PeteLeathersac]

I read a couple different books on this operation recently..
Truly sad how our generation has largely dropped the ball of passing the realities of WW2 or other conflicts on to our offspring..

Any opportunity you can, shake a Veterans hand and say thank you!.
The freedom we enjoy today is all the result of sacrifices made by them and their buddys!.

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~ Pete

[BJCHEV396]

Last year I was in Europe with my wife.We took a guided tour of Omaha and Juno beach.It was very moving and emotional.It really hits home when you see thousands of white crosses.Two of my uncles landed on Juno with the Royal Engineers.My most cherished items brought back from our trip are two small white rocks from the beach.They truelly were the ''greatest generation.''

[sYc]

PBS has a special on US military cemeteries overseas, very moving.

[WILMASBOYL78]

The heroes from World War 2 live on thru our service men and women of today. One of our Wounded Warrior Project participants has recently gone to &quot;great heights&quot; to promote the work of the organization. Check out the video...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/05/10/exp.am.intv.kilimanjaro.cnn?iref=allsearch

[mockingbird812]

My wife's Dad, Frank, was a combat engineer with the Canadian Army and was in the 1st wave at Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 with the Brits. Juno was every bit as bloody as Omaha. He was wounded there and recouped in a tiny village on a farm in Yorkshire England for several months. In 1985 Lori and I visited the farm where Frank recovered. The family had moved on but the current residents were more than happy to show us around. We tracked down the family that kept Lori's Dad during his recovery and had a nice reunion (Frank had been keeping in touch with them). Very neat to hear their stories about him (it was obvious to us that their young daughter, at the time, had a crush on Frank). He never talked about his experiences during the war - he passed in '98. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif (American salute to one of our staunchest allies)

[JChlupsa]

Very neat info, My dad was part of the 82nd and in the gliders and landed further inland. When he passed I got his daily journal, his atlas where he kept track of all the places they were sent and how they travelled to including N Africa. He wrote a small autobiography on his time there as well which was published in a book of stories of different VETS who all were there

His Journal is pretty interesting and some parts kind of took me by surprised but still pretty cool just the same.

[Adam12]

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