Happy 8th of May

[MINNOW]

Originally posted by Pooh21
born 1926 - Don Rickles, American comedian  

This is worth celebrating???????

[Debonair]

Originally posted by Russian
I wrote “Happy 8th of May” on a blackboard in my statistics class; the entire class was arrogant of that day. Sigh.

you are in the class, so:
some fraction of the class was not ignorant of the significance of the day.
some fraction of the class need to brush up on the significance of percentages in statistics.
there are at least two arrogant people in the class.

[Goth]

Hmmm...let's see....

May 8th in History
1902: The volcano Mount Pelee, in the Caribbean, erupts, killing 30,000 people
1911: Iceland gives the vote to women
1933: Gandhi, in India, begins a hunger strike in protest against the British
1945: Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared
1950: American General MacArthur becomes comander of the UN forces in Korea
1984: The USSR and Warsaw Pact countries announce they will boycott the Los Angeles Olympics


May 8th birthdays
1698: Henry Baker, English naturalist
1884: Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
1926: David Attenborough, English director
1940: Peter Benchley, British Author
1946: Candice Bergen, American actress

Candice Bergen, nope....Olympic boycott, nah....I know, I'll celebrate the fact that Iceland screwed up as badly as America did.

[Hangtime]

Russia suffer a causalty count in WWII of 27 million. ( 9 million dead, 18 million wounded)

The United States.. 600 thousand. (300,000 dead, 300,00 wounded).

We often here consider ourselves to be the 'winners'.. we paid the lowest price, fought the shortest time, reaped the largest benefit in the shift in power, post war.. and ultimately out-attritted the Soviets in the Cold War.

The Soviets spilled an astonishing amount of blood to defeat the Nazis... the brunt of the price paid for Europes eventual freedom was in no small part paid by the people of the Soviet Union. Men, women, children that fought and died by the millions not for communisim.. but for Mother Russia.

To sneer at the sacrafice of the Russian People in their 'Great War' is an insult that is neither deserved nor appropriate.. on any level.

To the men and women who fought the Nazi's in Europe. To those who sacraficed all... my humble thanks.

[KgB]

Originally posted by Hangtime
To sneer at the sacrafice of the Russian People in their 'Great War' is an insult that is neither deserved nor appropriate.. on any level.

To the men and women who fought the Nazi's in Europe. To those who sacraficed all... my humble thanks.

Golden words,i could not have said any better.

[Mr Big]

The men and women who served and paid with their lives to fight for Russia deserve the highest respect. Who wouldn't fight for their country? They fought a brutal, hellish war under extreme conditions and prevailed.

The problem I have with the Russia in WWII is Stalin. Russia made a deal with the Nazzis and probably would have stood by and happily let Britain and her allies get steam-rolled by Germany.

It was only after they got back-stabbed by Germany that they HAD to fight the Nazis. They didn't fight the Nazis for nobel reasons, unlike Britain. Russia seemed to have been in it for themselves from the begining, then after it ended.

People of Russia, Glod bless you. Stalin, hope you're enjoying hell. Just an eternity to go.

[daimian]

on this day eleven years ago i became a father to my number one son. about five PM i cut the cord.

[Viper9th]

Originally posted by Goth

1945: Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared
 

Duh


Sry for late reply was busy, Went to school and said happy 8th of may everyone was like wtf?