In Honor.... MIH

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IN MEMORIUM 2023 FROM A GRATEFUL NATION

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Herb Stoops · #60

They are just too young to die. Sad. I remember when I was their age, and in the service, I was so proud to be there.
Herb

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Bushwhacker · #65

Stick486 wrote: Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:46 pm
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How many of you have been to the Normandy beaches?

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Herb Stoops wrote: Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:31 am They are just too young to die. Sad. I remember when I was their age, and in the service, I was so proud to be there.
Herb

Brings back memories of my last day in Vietnam as we took off from Long Bien air base in a Braniff airline plane and flew over the jungle trying to get altitude. No one said a word until we could see the ocean below us. Then the cheers went up.
September 1967

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Bushwhacker wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:59 am How many of you have been to the Normandy beaches?

ONE.. Because there's only one of me...
the wife wouldn't go w/ me because she felt it would be too depressing for her..
she feared nightmares...

that's what happened to her after we visited Dachau...

Bushwhacker · #68

Stick486 wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:34 am
Bushwhacker wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:59 am How many of you have been to the Normandy beaches?
ONE.. Because there's only one of me...
the wife wouldn't go w/ me because she felt it would be too depressing for her..
she feared nightmares...

that's what happened to her after we visited Dachau...

MIne would not go to Dachau.
I have been there a couple of times.
While travelling around Europe for 7 months, we visited many military cemetaries, , American, French and German. Both WW1 and WW2

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Bushwhacker wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:41 am we visited many military cemeteries, ,

Her and I only one (Ardennes) to visit several relatives...
she started to cry and left... we never visited another one... nor did we ever discuss anything about it...

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Bushwhacker wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:41 am I have been there a couple of times.

visiting some of these sites should be required by the wastetoids of today...
it would be a wake up call or a melt down for them.... something they sorely need...

Herb Stoops · #71

I visit my wife in the military cemetery close to me, every once in awhile to make sure she is still there.
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Stick486 wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:36 pm
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Who do you suppose these men are.
Must be veterans of the war.

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Stick486 wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:00 am
Bushwhacker wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:41 am I have been there a couple of times.
visiting some of these sites should be required by the wastetoids of today...
it would be a wake up call or a melt down for them.... something they sorely need...

While travelling around Europe, I began to notice a trend. People arriving at the parking lots near Military Cemetary's would become quiet as they walked into the grave areas. even the kids, and if they were not, the parents straightened them out quickly.

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Stick486 wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:55 am
Bushwhacker wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:41 am we visited many military cemeteries, ,
Her and I only one (Ardennes) to visit several relatives...
she started to cry and left... we never visited another one... nor did we ever discuss anything about it...

My first wife was a French girl, she was a young girl during the war and remembers the Germans coming to her town. Her dads name is engraved on the town square memorial of the war.

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Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:31 am People arriving at the parking lots near Military Cemetary's would become quiet as they walked into the grave areas. even the kids, and if they were not, the parents straightened them out quickly.

I noticed that too...
many cried at the camps...
my wife's core fractured...

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