D-DAY

[USRanger]

   In '99 I was selected to be one of a few soldiers sent to Normandy to represent my unit for the 55th anniversary ceremony.  I have quite a few pics like straffo's, but no scanner to upload the pics (no digital camera back then).  All I can say, as a soldier and as an American, is that the beach at Normandy is a life changing experience.  I was awed at the cemetary, beautiful and sadly amazing.  Pointe-du-hoc humbles even the most badass of today's Rangers.  The beach, if you stare at it long enough from above and at the shoreline, you can almost relive it in your mind, almost hear it.  There's enough structures still around to help out with the mental picture.  If any of you high rollers ever goes to Europe, go there, not Paris or London or Rome, etc.  Go to Normandy.  You will never look at your country the same again.

Hooah

[redman555]

 


-BigBOBCH

[TOMCAT21]

 

[Hajo]

I salute all veterans who landed on foreign soil  everywhere to preserve freedom.

From Operation Torch, Sicily, Anzio, Tarawa, Okinawa and many many more during WWII.

My Father who is 87 and atm in a rehab facility trying to regain his health fought in North Africa and found himself

in landing craft at Sicily and then again at Anzio.  Many landings were accomplished before D-Day with the same Peril that

our D-Day Heros faced.  Salute to all who faced that peril with strength, resolve, dignity and heroism.

[MaSonZ]

  To me its ONE of the most important battles of the war. thanks to all those that fought hard, gave their lives, and those that continued on to the end, for fighting  as hard as you did.

[hunter128]

 

[Curlew]

Remember those who gave thier lives 67 years ago today in the fight for freedom on the sands of the beaches of a far away foreign land

 

[007Rusty]

 

[Stage1]

 

[WilldCrd]

 

[Jager]

 

[MachFly]