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2024-06-07 -Land of the Free

My dad landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. His simple answer on how he did it offers lessons to Americans today

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-07 00:28|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [240 views ] Top

#1 Duty, the only four letter word you don't hear anything about nowadays.

Posted by Cesare 2024-06-07 06:18|| 2024-06-07 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Duty, Honor, Courage...God, Country, Corps

Curious power in three words.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-06-07 14:00|| 2024-06-07 14:00|| Front Page Top

#3 my uncle landed there also. My father's ship was sunk in the Coral Sea. Both of them explained their wars to me when they were n their late 80's. The reason was because I was in the military. PTSD is my diagnosis. Sea war was a dinner bell for sharks.

Posted by Old Salty 2024-06-07 14:38|| 2024-06-07 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 On the 50th anniversary of D day I was sailing on the Rhine with a group of WW11 soldiers. One of the men on the ship was a radioman for Patton. He stated that they crossed over the River on the last bridge standing. Patton directed that it should be blown up because we weren't going back!

Posted by Old Salty 2024-06-07 15:07|| 2024-06-07 15:07|| Front Page Top

#5 IKE really liked Patton. MacArthur and IKE graduated Annapolis much higher than Patton that year.

I met a fellow who lied about his age and joined the Calvary riding into Mexico under the command of Brigadier General John J. Pershing. 14 years old he was. The hardest life then. I met him when he was 104. Paper on the wall unframed of his service. He is dead now so I suppose I can give you his name, George Stagerwald (misspelled perhaps).

Posted by Dale 2024-06-07 17:52|| 2024-06-07 17:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Dale Annapolis is the Navy, neither Ike or Patton went to the school in MD

Posted by Beavis 2024-06-07 18:48|| 2024-06-07 18:48|| Front Page Top

#7 MacArthur graduated from West Point in 1903
Patton graduated from West Point in 1909
Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915

Posted by Chantry 2024-06-07 19:00|| 2024-06-07 19:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Correction. Sorry my source was from overseas. Normally I post from direct interaction but not for that information.

Posted by Dale 2024-06-07 20:03|| 2024-06-07 20:03|| Front Page Top

#9 O’tay

Posted by Beavis 2024-06-07 21:02|| 2024-06-07 21:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Just goes to show, "talking to people" isn't always all that...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-07 21:12|| 2024-06-07 21:12|| Front Page Top

#11 ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2024-06-07 22:19|| 2024-06-07 22:19|| Front Page Top

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