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This is for the oldtimers

by clint48
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This is for the oldies but goldies.

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Clint
  • Profile picture of the author wittwildbill
    Thanks for the reminder. It seems that people remember this less and less every year.

    Sigh.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    My father was in D-Day. He never spoke of it, but you can still see it in his eyes
    whenever that day is mentioned that there was true depth of sacrifice that day
    that goes beyond words - beyond what anyone not there can grasp.

    Why are we allowing our leaders take what they died or survived horrors to give us?
    It's really time for all to remember and stand again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Norma Holt
    Originally Posted by clint48 View Post

    This is for the oldies but goldies.

    http://sandys-safelist.com/gg.html

    Clint
    Nicely written piece Clint. Your dad and my dad had much in common so I can relate.

    God bless

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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    D-Day was four years in coming and the parents of children in Europe knew shortages and (in continental Europe) terror for most of that time.

    The civilian populations were indispensable and supported the troops, many at risk of their own lives.

    Who remembers them?

    As an example, my father was blind and was one of the first to find himself on means tested welfare payments but was able to serve his country (one of which we were proud in those days) by being linked up with a man with no legs. He carried him up and down the side of a six storey building so that they could join the Civil Defence fire watch service.

    Who remembers them?
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    • Profile picture of the author clint48
      Originally Posted by artwebster View Post

      D-Day was four years in coming and the parents of children in Europe knew shortages and (in continental Europe) terror for most of that time.

      The civilian populations were indispensable and supported the troops, many at risk of their own lives.

      Who remembers them?

      As an example, my father was blind and was one of the first to find himself on means tested welfare payments but was able to serve his country (one of which we were proud in those days) by being linked up with a man with no legs. He carried him up and down the side of a six storey building so that they could join the Civil Defence fire watch service.

      Who remembers them?
      To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

      I am sure there is someone that they mean the world to.

      Clint
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    Originally Posted by artwebster

    As an example, my father was blind and was one of the first to find himself on means tested welfare payments but was able to serve his country (one of which we were proud in those days) by being linked up with a man with no legs. He carried him up and down the side of a six storey building so that they could join the Civil Defence fire watch service.

    Who remembers them?
    We do, when you tell us about them. We may not have known them, but now we know OF them.

    One of the favorite stories told at my fathers funeral was how he was turned away 5 times from joining the army in 1943-44. He stowed away on freight trains to get to the recruiting station; rural Arkansas was VERY rural.

    He was 10 years old the first time he tried to join. He finally made it into the Air Force in 1953.
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