|
|
Post by AztecWilliam on Jun 6, 2010 17:36:21 GMT -8
I doubt that very many AztecMesa members are unaware of the meaning of D-Day. Here's a graphic that always gets me. Ike chatting with U.S. paratroopers from the 101St Airborne shortly before takeoff. You can be sure that some of these guys had only hours to live when the picture was taken. ![]() 1840.photobucket.com/albums/zz329/aztecwilliam/Ikewithparatroopers.jpg [/img]  AzWm |
|
|
|
Post by steveaztec on Jun 8, 2010 14:28:38 GMT -8
I watched hours of history and military channel this week Aztecwin.
The greatest generation? You bet they are.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bob Forsythe on Jun 8, 2010 15:12:49 GMT -8
I watched hours of history and military channel this week Aztecwin. The greatest generation? You bet they are. I'm sorry. I know we all like to think highly of our fathers (mine drove the Burma Road), but I think every generation that has gone to war is a "great" generation. =Bob |
|
|
|
Post by The Aztec Panther on Jun 8, 2010 20:12:06 GMT -8
A couple days late and a couple dollars short, but here's a song that I love that's about D-Day...
That is an event that should never be forgotten. We owe an awful lot of people an awful lot of thanks for what they did that day (and in the months that followed).
|
|
|
|
Post by aztecinoz on Jun 9, 2010 1:40:54 GMT -8
I watched hours of history and military channel this week Aztecwin. The greatest generation? You bet they are. I'm sorry. I know we all like to think highly of our fathers (mine drove the Burma Road), but I think every generation that has gone to war is a "great" generation. =Bob While I don't want to say you are wrong. The amount of sacrifices that the folks in WWII/ Korea had to do is beyond anything that later generations had to deal with. Take me for example, I served as an MP in OIF for 7 months. Was it tough, yes. But I will never think it compares to what those guys had to go through. There is a reason they are called the greatest...lets not take that away from them. |
|
|
|
Post by Bob Forsythe on Jun 9, 2010 11:35:55 GMT -8
I'm sorry. I know we all like to think highly of our fathers (mine drove the Burma Road), but I think every generation that has gone to war is a "great" generation. =Bob While I don't want to say you are wrong. The amount of sacrifices that the folks in WWII/ Korea had to do is beyond anything that later generations had to deal with. Take me for example, I served as an MP in OIF for 7 months. Was it tough, yes. But I will never think it compares to what those guys had to go through. There is a reason they are called the greatest...lets not take that away from them. Not trying to take anything away from them. But while you may have been in country for only 7 months, there are guys who've been in Afghanistan for totals of multiple years. But going back in time, look at the privations our Revolutionary soldiers had to deal with, often marching through snow with no shoes or what those who fought in the Civil War dealt with when 70 percent casualties were often the order of the day in any given battle. That's why I wrote that they are all great. =Bob |
|
|
|
Post by aztecwin on Jun 9, 2010 13:32:54 GMT -8
I think of the WW2 guys as "The Greatest Generation" but don't you think that every man who has served his country at any time of war and been in "harms way" deserves our respect?
|
|
|
|
Post by Bob Forsythe on Jun 10, 2010 16:35:50 GMT -8
I think of the WW2 guys as "The Greatest Generation" but don't you think that every man who has served his country at any time of war and been in "harms way" deserves our respect? Thanks, exactly my point. =Bob |
|
