Remember Them and This Day

[m1ashooter]

75 years ago the invasion troops are packed in their ships, the airborne is waiting to load and ground crews are getting their aircraft ready. These men were our fathers, grandfathers and uncles. Remember them as we head off to a peaceful day tomorrow which is the 75th Anniversary of the invasion of France.

[jjrothWA]

Remember, at dawn of the SIXTH, tomorrow, on the EAST coast, the invasion was still NOT decided.

It wasn't till sundown of the 6TH, that the beachheads were firm, established, but less than 50 percent of the original objectives.

The morning of the SEVENTH, saw the moorings of the MULBERRY's, finalizing the tide over to the ALLIES!

BLESS THEM ALL!

[Vern Humphrey]

The 116th Infantry, Virginia National Guard, the Stonewall Brigade, was the assault regiment on Omaha Beach. Everything went wrong. For every two men who boarded a landing craft that morning, by sundown one of them was either dead or wounded.

[blackhawknj]

Think of those young men manning the DD Shermans, who were launched 6,000 yards out.
I read an account by a paratrooper in the 82nd, he landed just short of the beach. Pulled himself together, then realized he was the last of his stick. The rest had jumped over the Channel.
A nod to Group Captain Stagg, Eisenhower's meteorologist. He predicted a break in the weather.

[ddrobny]

My Great Uncle served with the 357th Inf. Reg., 90th Inf. Div. - The Tough Ombres during WWII. I wish he was still around to learn more from, unfortunately he passed away several years ago. My hat is off to everyone that has or is serving this great Country of ours!

[free1954]

75 years ago the invasion troops are packed in their ships, the airborne is waiting to load and ground crews are getting their aircraft ready. These men were our fathers, grandfathers and uncles. Remember them as we head off to a peaceful day tomorrow which is the 75th Anniversary of the invasion of France.

yes sir. my father, my father in law, my uncle, my mother's cousin, [killed that day] my neighbor, and the janitor from my grade school.

[S.A. Boggs]

My cousin Dow was in the 101ABN, as a kid I loved to look at the pictures of Hitler's home and touch some of the AH silverware. Dow never recovered from his PTSD and use of ethanol.
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

The Stonewall Brigade

They were just a number in the Army list,
But all the same
The Stonewall Brigade
Went by their ancient name

They came down from their mountains
To face the fire once more
And rode in little boats
To breach a hostile shore

The seas were running high,
The mistake was easily made
And landed on a clifted shore,
The Stonewall Brigade

The forest shed its leaves,
The mountain bowed its head
When the telegraph told Bedford
The roll call of her dead.



On D-Day, the 6th of June, 1944, the 116th Infantry, Virginia National Guard -- the Stonewall Brigade -- was the assault regiment on Omaha Beach, where the heaviest fighting took place. The Navy launched them from too far out to sea, more than three miles, and the shore couldn’t be seen from the landing craft. In the rugged seas, the landing craft got lost and all intermixed. Forty-two dual drive tanks – Shermans with flotation devices and propellers – were launched with them, and forty-one sank before reaching the beach. None of their crews survived.

Although the Stonewall Brigade took fifty percent casualties that day, they were ashore and would not be driven back. The Stonewall Brigade has never been defeated.

On the 13th of June, 1944, the Western Union office in Bedford, Virginia was overwhelmed with telegrams telling families their husbands, sons and brothers had died on the beach. Bedford lost more of her sons, proportionally, than any other town in America

[Dolt]

75 years ago the invasion troops are packed in their ships, the airborne is waiting to load and ground crews are getting their aircraft ready. These men were our fathers, grandfathers and uncles. Remember them as we head off to a peaceful day tomorrow which is the 75th Anniversary of the invasion of France.

Our best thanks to them is to be the kind of American that is worth dying for. To expound for the denser among us who will ask "What type of American would that be?"

It would be the type of American who would say "I love this country. It is the best country in the world with all of its flaws that we continue to try and fix. There is no better example of a free country in the world and I would die to defend it and its principles."

[Allen]

Trumps speech on D-Day in case you missed it.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/president-trumps-speech-75th-d-day-anniversary-normandy

Even chief communist Jim Acosta at the communist news network couldn't spew the networks usual anti-American sentiment over this speech partially because they are already having to lay off people and obviously don't want to go completely under yet.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...message-moment

Now, what kind of speech would one expect from president hillary clinton? "what difference does it make now?"

What about president ilhan omar? "some people did something".

Taken from the Stilton's Place site:

Today marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the battle that helped turned the tide of World War II - but at a terrible cost in human lives. When the first wave arrived at Normandy Beach, the casualty rate was an unthinkable 90%. Yet wave after wave kept arriving and kept fighting their way to the heavily fortified cliff tops.

Many thousands of our fallen remain in Normandy today, their resting places marked with simple white crosses. Row upon row of memorials to young lives given in the name of freedom and liberation.

Let us never forget their sacrifice, nor give too little credit and appreciation to all who serve and have served in uniform through the years. Some gave all...all gave some. We are in their debt.

[blackhawknj]

Then there was 56 year old Theodore Roosevelt Jr. with his bad leg and heart, who insisted on going ashore in the first wave. When asked what was the bravest thing he saw on D-Day Bradley replied "Ted Roosevelt, Utah Beach."