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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Starcrossd
In the bottom of this same steamer trunk was a newspaper lining on the bottom. Just for a bottom liner.
The date is...May 16, 1929.
He said..."They told us, point blank, we're going to put more soldiers on the beach than the Germans have bullets to shoot. Your mission is to take out as many German reinforcements as possible to keep those casualties to a minimum."
and now we have neo nazis in our country and what will that take?
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: anotherside
I would love to go there someday and pay my respects.
Dad always talked about that day. He talked about how unfair he thought it was he was way "up there" when all those guys were fighting it out on the beach. He told me a chilling story about their briefing on the eve before D-Day, I'll never forget what he said.
He said..."They told us, point blank, we're going to put more soldiers on the beach than the Germans have bullets to shoot. Your mission is to take out as many German reinforcements as possible to keep those casualties to a minimum."
He would always choke up about how 'matter of fact' that briefing was. Just the sheer scale of what it was going to take to defeat Hitler, and the absolute colossal loss of life which would ensue the very next day. I can't even imagine it. He said he couldn't either, and it took weeks for them to hear the real toll. In many ways he always felt somehow guilty about that day (I can't imagine why, after all he did, but he still did).
Our younger generations will never know, or even begin to understand, the sacrifice these heroes made to preserve the world as we know it today!