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75th Anniversary of VE Day
Today is the 75th Anniversary of VE Day. I'm so proud of our fathers and grandfathers and our mothers and grandmothers for the remarkable accomplishment that made the life we live today possible.
It's humbling to think of the sacrifices both large and small that they made to keep us safe. 
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05-08-2020, 10:43 AM
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The opening scenes in Saving Private Ryan give us a tiny little perspective of what those men were going through. Imagine most of them were 18 to 21 and just doing the job they were drafted to do.
Amazing men of courage. And so many of them lived through all the European battles, and then were ready to go to the Pacific and fight another evil enemy. Many brave men perished in the Pacific. It is hard to comprehend the war in the Atlantic and the ships the US brought to battle on Jun 6th 1944. And then just 4 months later October 23, 1944 the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The largest naval battle of WW2 and the crippling blow to Japanese fleet.
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05-08-2020, 11:19 AM
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The fighting was a big part of defeating the Axis, but there were also a lot of people at home doing without. Working hard. Supporting each other to make sure that the troops had everything they needed to get the job done. Dealing with shortages of normal household supplies - for four years.
Putting their lives on hold in hopes of a better day and a better world.
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05-08-2020, 02:03 PM
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Good posts by all. I was born Nov. '43, so no memories of the hardships at home...other than I didn't know about candy until after the war was over. I was told of scrap metal drives, the flattening of cans..nothing wasted. Gas, tires, everything rationed.
My dad the middle of 3 bothers...the oldest a colonel in the pacific, a communications expert, the youngest a B-17 Captain, one of the fortunate who made it home. My dad? Had a small Turkey ranch near Patterson, CA...when he tried to join up was told to keep on raising Turkeys for the military. Anyway..very true...a nation that pulled together with everybody sacrificing one way or another. A line from "Band of Brothers" comes to mind...when told of Hitler's suicide, one of them said: "Why didn't he kill himself in the beginning and save us all the trouble?"
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05-08-2020, 04:03 PM
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I will always repost this:
[IMG][/IMG] My Great Uncle Noel is in this . . . he and three of his brothers were in the RCAF. The fourth brother was in the army . . . a black sheep, I guess. |
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05-10-2020, 06:37 AM
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