66 Years Ago Today

[Basil]

June 6th 1944

This is not meant to be political:

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[Steve]

Commemorating the anniversary of D-Day transcends politics.

 

[Basil]

Commemorating the anniversary of D-Day transcends politics.

One would hope so.

 

[PAUL161]

Telling my age, but I remember those days. I remember listening to Walter Winchell while laying on the floor with my head almost stuck in our old floor radio. I remember the excitement of the people when the war ended. It was a great time in our history when that war ended. At that time, bread was 12 cents a loaf and when it went to 15 cents, people were up in arms over the inflated prices. Of course, if you made $30 a week back then, you were on top of the world. Memories. Less we never forget!

 

[Basil]

Telling my age, but I remember those days. I remember listening to Walter Winchell while laying on the floor with my head almost stuck in our old floor radio. I remember the excitement of the people when the war ended. It was a great time in our history when that war ended. At that time, bread was 12 cents a loaf and when it went to 15 cents, people were up in arms over the inflated prices. Of course, if you made $30 a week back then, you were on top of the world. Memories. Less we never forget!

Wow, that must have been quite an experience! I'm glad we have not forgotten that day that literally changed history. It will be a sad day indeed should we ever forget, and not commemorate, the tremendous sacrifices that were made that day to secure freedom. I hope we never forget.

 

[Gray_Cat]

Even some cartoonists paid tribute to D Day. I thought this one was very touching:
https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2010/06/06/
Roy

 

[Gliderman8]

My dad took me when I was fifteen years old back to the beaches where he came up on in Southern France.

 

[BabaKahawa]

Elliot;
My father also landed on Normandy during the phase 2 amphibious landing. He passed away almost a year ago, aug. 17th. I never traveled with him to those beaches. Your experience with your dad must have been a great part of your life together. Those must be great memories.

 

[Gliderman8]

Elliot;
My father also landed on Normandy during the phase 2 amphibious landing. He passed away almost a year ago, aug. 17th. I never traveled with him to those beaches. Your experience with your dad must have been a great part of your life together. Those must be great memories.

Looking back NOW they certainly were. Unfortunately, at fifteen years old I was still too much of a kid to appreciate it.

 

[DrEntropy]

I didn't get too much info from my dad 'till I was fourteen or fifteen, after that it was serious conversation on a number of occasions. He went in on the second day (otherwise you'd all have been deprived of my genial presence :smirk: ). He ran into one of his cousins on that beach, didn't see each other again 'till they were both home. I have a photo of him and his AA (quad fiftys) crew mock cleaning one of the barrels with a Nazi flag, someplace in France. EVERY time I look at that picture the first thought is how <span style="font-style: italic">young</span> those guys were to have been thrown into that melee. More than one of that crew did not come home, too.

By comparison my "war" experience was a 9-to-5 "job" with a few High Pucker incidents thrown in for perspective.

Da' passed back in '94, he missed his 70th b'day by a bit less than two months. He was a Halloween baby. Still miss th' man terribly.

 

[Gliderman8]

Doc. I have the ORIGINAL newspaper NEGATIVE of my dad and his brother meeting in France on VE Day. I've already made a couple of prints from it when I had a darkroom.

 

[DrEntropy]

NEAT!!

 

[Sherlock]

Our local military museum had an event on Sunday to coincide (as closely as possible) with D-Day...

This fellow is a WW2 veteran, and here he is modeling a 1910 reproduction Canadian military uniform

And one person in our church was there on D-Day for the Canadian landing, he lived a long life and passed away just a few days before Remembrance Day back in November, another link gone...

 

[DrEntropy]

We live, we die.

The hope is that there's enuff who read and remember.

 

[Steve]

We live, we die.

The hope is that there's enuff who read and remember.

Amen to that, my friend!

 

[AngliaGT]

Our local military museum had an event on Sunday to coincide (as closely as possible) with D-Day...

This fellow is a WW2 veteran, and here he is modeling a 1910 reproduction Canadian military uniform

And one person in our church was there on D-Day for the Canadian landing, he lived a long life and passed away just a few days before Remembrance Day back in November, another link gone...

I'm almost ashamed to think that Canadians are more patriotic
than Americans.We took our Granddaughter to the Memorial Day
ceremonies.We want her to apprecite "The Greatest Generation".
James,I want to thank you for sharing these items/images.
Doc,People like your Father were the norm,rather than the exception.
you are blessed that you were able to share his memories.
I didn't know that my Father did in the Pacific,until his
death a few years ago.I found out that he was a hero.I just wish
that I'd been able to hear his stories.

- Doug

 

[JPSmit]

I'm almost ashamed to think that Canadians are more patriotic than Americans.

Doug, I hope that never becomes an issue either way. I've lived on both sides of the border and have discovered that people remember (and forget sadly) in equal measure.