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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Ripsnort on June 06, 2001, 08:51:00 AM
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Let us not forget the past....
A big <S> to those that fought, those that died, and those that came home from this day in history 57 years ago.
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[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 06-06-2001).]
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Amen,
Salute!
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Damned Augie
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amen to that.
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And let us not forget all our fallen commards and contry men from where ever they may have and whoevers side they were on for it was a horrible time for all and we need to remember them as heros, no matter if they were Allied or Axis. For they all faught a war that I myself would rather reinact through games then actualy do the hardshis that they all faced. So I salute all of these people man woman and child who where alive during this time and let us remember this one "great" war so that we never repeat it.
Hodo
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I would like to thank each American, British and Canadian soldier who was there that day as well as the French partisans that did what they could to help ensure the success of the invasion.
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to the ghosts of Normandy
Eagler
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<SALUTE> to the survivors! <SALUTE> to those who left as partial survivors of the real horrors of combat. <SALUTE> to those who sacrificed all to guarantee the free world.
May God in His mercy shine forth perpetual light upon them. May He hold them in his arms and grant them a fitting reward for their sacrifice.
Mav
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I was thinking about D-Day today. All those people who willingly gave their lives to free others. <S!>
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I was in Normande in April
Quite a somber place
<S> all that were there
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Thank you for the sacrifice!
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Salute to asll who would fight to save the free world. Not only at normandy but also in other wars vietnam korea and what i consider the true forgotten war WW1. An extra salute to those who had to make amphibiouos landings spec. at normandy and to those who had to fighti n the gruesome trenches in France.
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Salute to asll who would fight to save the free world. Not only at normandy but also in other wars vietnam korea and what i consider the true forgotten war WW1. An extra salute to those who had to make amphibiouos landings spec. at normandy and to those who had to fighti n the gruesome trenches in France. [EdIt] Oh and help the Veteran of Foreign Wars Commitee office defend their property which is about to be rightfully taken by the goverment of birmingham and jefferson county to make way for the brand new 100,000 person stadium. [eDiT]
[ 06-06-2001: Message edited by: Hobodog ]
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What did he die for,
when he died for you and me?
paid the sacrifce
so that we could all be free
I believe we will all give an answer,
for the way we spend this priceless liberty
What did he die for,
when he died for me?
----- Twila Paris -----
May we honor those who died by the way that we live our lives.
dtango
[ 06-06-2001: Message edited by: dtango ]
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For all who suffered during the nazi regime. For young lives lost before life started. For life long hardships remembering. For the Czech, Finnish, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Austrian, Italian, Swiss, Slovakian, Belgium, Dutch, French, Greek, Yugoaslav ang German youths that endured Nazi occupation of their homes, I give my salutes.
Many I have talked with about Ryan thought it to be 'Hollywood'. They would say that about Schindlers List too. Me? I think they are important movies. Little pieces in a jigsaw that, in a perfect world, may prevent us from bearings arms against one another again.
I lived with my grandparents for 4 years. My grand mother went away for a couple of weeks. Grand dad was upset. He was drinking and feeling terrible. One evening I sat down with him asking what was wrong. He told me. The nightmares would never go away. He told me a few of his memories. One was when him and his brother, a partisan, was walking down one of Copenhagens occupied streets a summer evening. Towards them came two German soldiers in their grey uniforms, chatting with eacother. When they were a few yards away, my granddad's brother pulled out his P38 and fired a double into one of the German's face. My grandfather said 'his face just disappeared in his helmet'. The other one recevied the rest of the bullets remaining in the mag in Villy's pistol. Both died instantly. My grand father threw himself prone and started firing with his own pistol over the heads of civilian runners-to. Villy picked him up. They ran into a courtyard, up a fire escape staircase onto the roofs and fled alltogehter. My grandfather was throwing up all along, while Villy who had been in Gestapo's care and gone crazy, laughed all along speaking about 'how those Germans had deserved it'. No they didn't. Nobody deserves war. Nobody should ever live through it. Ask anyone you know Jewish or from ex-Yougoslavia. Or the above mentioned countries who lived in that period. Period.
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<S> and thanks.