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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Great photos and thanks for posting them. I'm a WWII Europe buff and gobble all this stuff up. (If anyone is interested in the URL, I'm a member at a great WWII discussion forum.)
There is a reason they were called the greatest generation in history. I cannot imagine what they went through to put their lives on the line to destroy an evil menace.
Every time I meet a WWII vet (it's rare these days), I shake his hand and want to give the guy (or woman) a hug. I have total, total respect for those people. We MUST never forget what they did for us. I bow to their incredible bravery and sacrifice.
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I've met a lot of D-Day veteran's in my life. Every rememberance day when I was in the military I would end up in the legion at Banff with a bunch of old vets.
But the guys that went up the beach area lot different, they tend to be a lot more grateful about their life. They remember every aspect of that battle, they just look tough even when they were sick and in the later light of their lives.
I remember meeting a old guy who claimed that he had been in the battle for Stalingrad, and the stories he told were amazing and even at the age of 90 his hands still shook.