D-Day 80th Anniversary

[Hogfan58]

He was there with Joe to trash the Russians and brag about 350,000 Russian casualties in the Ukraine.  You know, the Russians, our allies during WW II.

It's kind of crazy.  Even during the Cold War we would send contingents a lot of years to march in their Victory Day Parade.  But now, Putin is Hitler. 

Really disrespectful to everyone there to turn this event into politics.

I thought Trump was Hitler. Can you have more than 1 Hitler at the same time?

[buff2.0]

I thought Trump was Hitler. Can you have more than 1 Hitler at the same time?

Putin is Hitler.  Trump is SuperHitler, even though he's Putin's puppet.  They're different.  Elmo doesn't work with his hand up his own ass; someone else has to have a hand up there.

[buff2.0]

Really disrespectful to everyone there to turn this event into politics.

Emotional bullshit is all the entire democrat party has.  They're just not capable of simply celebrating someone else's achievements.  Like I said elsewhere, the remaining veterans of that great day (and everyone who took part in the great undertaking of liberating Europe) deserved better. 

[Guardrail]

This.
It's very good. Props set up in different rooms depicting different theaters of operation. Visual footage of said battles etc. with audio of actual men telling their stories to kinda go along with the videos.

There aint no men anymore. Crazy the things they did and went through.

Took my son a few years back and he loved every minute of it, especially the theater presentation. Worth the trip if you're down there.

[TC]

The paper mache tanks and stuff that we built elsewhere to throw the Nazis off is so LOL. 

The dummies (I forget what they called them) with parachutes that they dropped from planes to an area opposite of where we actually attacked was pretty brilliant as well.

[SwahiliSteve]

The dummies (I forget what they called them) with parachutes that they dropped from planes to an area opposite of where we actually attacked was pretty brilliant as well.

paratroopers 🙄

[TC]

paratroopers 🙄

Yeah how could I have forgotten that. 

No dummy, real dummies. I looked it up and they called them Ruperts.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the-dummy-paratroopers-of-wwii

[HOGSRUNWILD]

paratroopers 🙄

Joe was trying to recreate the ordeal but misheard and thought they said ParaPoopers

[Pighair]

I had the pleasure and privilege of taking care of a man who was in his late 90s by the time I met him around 10+ years ago. He made the landing at Normandy. Further in land in France at some point he ran into his father who was a first sergeant of a different company. He told me his dad had been a World War I veteran as well and signed back up. They hadn't seen each other in some time and neither knew the other was there but just randomly ran into each other. He told me a lot of other details that I wish I'd written down at the time because I, of course, don't remember it all now. Anyway, the man I knew continued on fighting in the hedge rows where he eventually lost one of his eyes. I asked him how that happened and he told me threw a grenade toward a German in a ditch and he said "I don't think he liked that very much because when I stuck my head up to see if I got him he shot me in the eye". He then had to lay in the ditch for 24 hours before they fought their way forward enough to get him out. He then got evacuated to an aid station and his war was over and sent home. His dad made it home too but of course died many years before I met this man.

[Hogworth Ballington III]

A good watch on one of the most pivotal figures behind D-Day. Without Garbo, it likely doesn't even happen. He was also a big reason Rommel and many of his senior officers were not at their post (that and the bad weather which had many convinced that wouldn't be the day the allies came knocking)

[Corn Pop]

In 1984 Ronald Reagan spoke in Normandy on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. He stated: "These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end the war."

Reagan would later say:

"It was a very moving experience. They were what General Marshall called 'our secret weapon. The best damn kids in the world.' Where do we find such men? The answer came almost as quickly as I'd asked the question. Where we've always found them in this country. On the farms, in the shops, the stores and the offices. They just are the product of the freest society the world has ever known."

How do we find such men?

That's a real question: How was the D-Day generation raised? Because that has a lot to do with the kind of men that were produced in the Greatest Generation.

The answer is:

They were raised in church. Church membership in 1937 was at 73%. Ninety-six percent of Americans, according to Gallup, said they believed in God in 1944. A grand total of 4% of all households in the United States were single-parent families in 1940.

Today the single-motherhood rate is 41%, 10 times the single-motherhood rate in 1937. Only 47% of Americans, a minority of Americans, are members of churches today.

[The Whyte Boar]

[Usafhawg]

Do you have to ruin every thread? Good grief.

[DirkPiggler]

The dummies (I forget what they called them) with parachutes that they dropped from planes to an area opposite of where we actually attacked was pretty brilliant as well.

Aggies.  They were called Aggies.  More accurately, the Corps of Cadets.

[The Whyte Boar]

Do you have to ruin every thread? Good grief.

Oh, please.  Quit being an asshat.  We were already far afield talking about all kinds of other stuff.  I waited until the thread was already off the rails.

And, by the way, it's accurate.

[Usafhawg]

And, by the way, it's accurate.

At least you're finally admitting it. Got to keep that race pure.

[The Whyte Boar]

At least you're finally admitting it. Got to keep that race pure.

Lol...I was more focused on the transexual part.  But, you keep on being a white knight.

[Hogworth Ballington III]

Yeah, that mulatto part really stands out there. Reminds me of that Maya Angelou quote about when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them.

[The Whyte Boar]

Yeah, that mulatto part really stands out there. Reminds me of that Maya Angelou quote about when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them.

Believe what you want.  I'm beyond caring. 

[SwahiliSteve]

Believe what you want.  I'm beyond caring. 

oh come on you care you big ole racist