D Day

[alvin stadel]

What the HELL!  Out of 1731 fourm members, not one acknowledgement or said thank you to those that went though HELL to give us a free country in which to live and raise our familys. I bet everyone on here has relatives that were involved, dads, uncles, grandfathers  Most of these great men are gone now, but we should never forget, I know I don't.  Every time I get back to the Black Hills of South Dakota which are getting fewer all the time, I stop at the National Cemetry, where my dad, uncles, and good friends are layed to rest, I stop and say thanks. What a great generation they were, and with that I say thank you.

[mustang6984]

You are right. We should have done something.
My grandfather was a Japanese theater Marine. did the entire war on that side of the Pacific.
My dad's older brother trained pilots for combat after thinking he was going to go over. My dad was about 17 when the war ended. His venture was the Korean War as a Marine.

[KYBlueOval]

I've walked the beaches of Normandy and the cemetery that is close by. A very moving experience.
I took my children to see it on the 40th anniversary, so they would fully understand what the word "sacrifice" really meant.
John

[gasman826]

NORMANDY!  I stood on the cliffs.  I walked the cemetery.  Yesterday, I could still smell the sea. I could hear my uncle sharing memories of being in the second wave and having to step around the bodies of those who helped make it possible for him to walk upright up the beach.  I followed his path through the hedgerow country to southeast of Paris where his war was over.  My uncle limped with a shortened leg and oozed shrapnel the rest of his life but I never heard him complain one time.  RIP Uncle Dick

[Fairlane62]

My uncle made it through the Siegfried line where he was wounded.  He also carried schrapnel the rest of his life.  He started smoking during the war since the K rations included cigarettes, so lung cancer eventually got him.

[gasman826]

All the jokes aside, I looked forward to getting K-rations.  It was kind of like getting a surprise in your Micky Ds bag.  The diversion created, if only for moments, while discovering the menu and trading for treats and your brand of cigarettes in the 4-pac.

[Ford Blue blood]

They were "Sea Rats" for us, best part was the cigarettes, light one and see how much of it would flair up before you could take a drag!

[Fairlane62]

All the jokes aside, I looked forward to getting K-rations.  It was kind of like getting a surprise in your Micky Ds bag.  The diversion created, if only for moments, while discovering the menu and trading for treats and your brand of cigarettes in the 4-pac.

Chesterfields.