70 years ago, free men stood against evil – and evil failed

70 years ago, free men stood against evil – and evil failed. Evil got its ass kicked. We salute all those who fought on D-day.

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  • To those brave scared young men who faced the evil of the Nazis, the certain death as the boats landed, there are many among this nation who are grateful for your sacrifice. Thank you for facing your fears and stepping forward when it would have been much easier to have stepped.

    • I love this quote,

      “It’s not that we don’t want to respect the commander in chief,” one veteran told Fund. “It’s just that he makes it so hard to do so.”

      And yesterday I heard Jamie Dupree tell the story about the Brit down thread. Gotta love the guy.

  • Dad's most poignant memory of landing at Normandy? The night before, still back in England, listening to the endless rumble of the bombers flying over to soften German resistance to the landing. Until the soldiers heard those bombers, the whole notion of invading France was just theoretical. But once they heard those bombers that night, they knew it was really gonna happen. And their lives would never be the same. As you can imagine, there was very little sleep that night.

    • So I take Dad to lunch today, to meet his almost-equally-old brothers, and the second we sit down he launches into a fifteen minute story about the bombers flying over, followed by his other favorite memory, of his friend, Lt. Deck, showing up late that morning because he was with a woman and Dad had to make excuses and pretend one of his jeeps had motor trouble, until Deck finally got there otherwise Deck would have been in a shitload of trouble. I'm just about to tell my father to shut up and let his brothers talk when I remembered, "Oh, it's D-day today, that's why this stuff is on his mind."

      His next favorite memory is arriving in Southhampton (I think) with all new jeeps and all new equipment of every possible sort, the nice new stuff they'd been issued back in the States, and being told to turn everything in, and the Army issuing them all replacement stuff that was old and crotchety and crappy, like Ford jeeps that everybody hated. Apparently the Army decided they didn't want to risk new stuff on the beaches of Normandy because almost everything that landed there would be destroyed. So they used D-day as an excuse to get rid of all their old decrepit shit. Those of you who've been in the Army are probably nodding your head right now, thinking, "Yeah, that sounds like the Army." Dad never has much good to say about the Quartermaster Corps., but many people think they won the war as much as the frontline soldiers.

      • I love that last story. It is army mentality to the core because it probably was the right decision in a cold and calculating way. It would have been difficult to travel across France in the old crappy stuff.

        • He has another quartermaster story that makes me laugh. The guys quickly learned to jettison excess shit to save weight they had to carry on their backs, and the first thing they got rid of was the gas masks. This wasn't trench warfare, after all. This was blitzkrieg on one side and Patton's straight ahead until we're out of gas on the other side. Some rear-echelon jackass noticed that nobody had gas masks and asked a soldier where his was. Of course the guy doesn't dare say, "I threw the worthless thing away so I wouldn't have to carry it," so he answers, "I don't know sir. Lost it in a firefight." A couple days later a quartermaster truck pulls up to Dad's company, everyone looks up filled with hope, dreaming of warm food or warm clothing or extra socks without holes or some damn water, and what does the Quartermaster Corps have for them? They all got brand new gas masks. Which were gone by the end of the day. Even the officers refused to carry them.

          • I love the inside baseball anecdotes like that. Full disclosure: my uncle was a logistician who helped plan the invasion. He landed something like D+3 or 4. He told funny stories about the process of acquiring and moving equipment around. Theft was the biggest problem. If something wasn't nailed down or guarded it vanished. He stayed in theater through 1946 as part of the occupation. Until his death he always said '46 was the best year of his life. Full colonel (not yet even 30) living in some German mountain berg.

  • How ironic that great patriotic Americans fought and all too often gave their lives for our freedoms and now we stand at a cross-road where those freedoms are being used against us.
    To think my relatives and millions of others have sacrificed themselves and their families to inadvertently allow a minority of America haters to verbally and physically destroy this country is beyond reprehensible.

    God bless all veterans and piss on all liberals.

    • They fought this war for not just for the sake of their own freedoms and patriotism but the freedoms of others and just like the French soldiers in WW1, a better world, more peacefull world.
      As one veteran with a medail said back in 2004 over France not being involved in Iraq, he thought this would be the last war.

      Hovewer, Hitler never had his sight on the United States and abolishing the Republic to establish a totalitarian state over north america but others closer at home, even back then, did.
      Over 27 years earlier, under prez Wilson, they had already made their first attempt at establishing a totalitarian state using the state of war with the German Empire.

      The menace he brought upon the US was inadvertent, the Anglo-French defeat in 1940 allowed Roosevelt to win the 1940 elections. Later, US involvement in WW2 allowed him to win the 1944 elections.

      Roosevelt and his acolytes never wanted US involvement in the war for the sake of freedom or even Polish or French sovereignity, they just deemed that a surviving, powerfull Germany would have a negative effect on their agenda.
      From their very own viewpoint, Roosevelt's economic policies where not as successful when compared to Hitler´s economic policies, in spite of Germany having far less resources, greater industrial capacity and greater population density than the CONUS.
      In 1937 one side saw half of its foreign trade cut-off by the Japanese attack on China and the other saw another round of recession.

      And this agenda was far more nefarious than that of Hitler, who at least sought to safeguard his nation and people against real and imagined enemies by any means necessary instead of betraying it, nor gave much of a **** about a one world governement.

      As Wilson´s attempt is nearing its 100th anniversary, another one is coming soon, the beginning of the final fight between the ideals of the Republic and the Religion of Progressivism. Reason against the emotion-driven rejection of it.
      Things will likely just get too ugly between both sides for any stable truce to work, civil wars are rarely civil and so are wars of a religious nature.

      • At least Wilson fought to "Make the world safe for democracy." Roosevelt fought to make the world safe for Stalin.

    • For a second I thought you were talking about FDR, I'm glad you were talking about RWR.

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