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D-DAY - a date that needs to be remembered
Posted on 6/6/25 at 7:42 am
Posted on 6/6/25 at 7:42 am
I can still vividly recall where I was when I heard the adults talking about "the sea was red with blood" = six years old standing with my dad as he talked with others on Main Street in Leesville in front of the Merchant's % Farmers Bank.
From the tenor of their voices, I knew it was something significant and potentially bad, but the sea of blood was an image I could not even partially imagine. I knew it had to be a bad portent. It was only much later that I could actually put that image into proper context = the most significant event of success in the European theater.
Not even the A-bomb compares with it - - I do not recall where I was when I learned of that.
Such sacrifice - it is doubtful we could summon that level of patriotism today - but we are working on a recovery if only we can deter the evil democrats for a while longer while they slowly recover from their warped mindset of cooperation with the evil forces of politics.
From the tenor of their voices, I knew it was something significant and potentially bad, but the sea of blood was an image I could not even partially imagine. I knew it had to be a bad portent. It was only much later that I could actually put that image into proper context = the most significant event of success in the European theater.
Not even the A-bomb compares with it - - I do not recall where I was when I learned of that.
Such sacrifice - it is doubtful we could summon that level of patriotism today - but we are working on a recovery if only we can deter the evil democrats for a while longer while they slowly recover from their warped mindset of cooperation with the evil forces of politics.
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Posted on 6/6/25 at 7:47 am to ChineseBandit58
They died to make the world safe for communism and white replacement.
Bless you boys.
Bless you boys.
This post was edited on 6/6/25 at 7:48 am
Posted on 6/6/25 at 8:53 am to ChineseBandit58
Just wondering what your memories of ve and vj days were. Would be interested to hear from you.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 8:55 am to ChineseBandit58
19 year ago today I went to recruit training. 6-6-6 , interesting date to have.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 9:16 am to momentoftruth87
Last year I talked to an old vet & though I hesitated at first, he brought up D Day. He was a medic who went in on the first wave at Omaha Beach. He said that though was no way to come close to describing it, he had seen Saving Private Ryan & it was the closest to the real thing he had ever seen in movies about the war. He said the ONLY ( his emphasis ) thing missing was the smell everywhere, the smell of cordite was almost an assault on his nose, the smell of blood, everywhere...yes, he added, the water was red all up & down the entire beach... soldiers were shitting their pants, that smell was almost vomit producing. He would have but he was too scared. But what almost caused him to walk out was the "unbelievably real " of the sound of bullets whizzing by. He had nightmares of that sound for years.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 10:25 am to thetempleowl
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memories of ve and vj days
Sadly, nothing made a singular 'position' imprint on my mind = I only recall the general euphoria and looking forward. Leesville was the home of Camp Polk at that time - military was everywhere and on everyone's minds - the excitement was off the charts.
For VJ - the buzz was mostly about the 'atom bomb' - a new scientific phenomenon that everyone was largely ignorant of - meaning the physics behind it - nobody in my circle had any idea of how that much energy could be acquired from such a small package.
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