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Post by PG on Jun 6, 2019 10:20:42 GMT
A feeling of humility and awe fills me up every time we remember an anniversary. Humility that people gave of their lives to keep us free. And awe at what those who died and everyone who made it through achieved on all our behalfs.
May we never forget.
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Post by johnc on Jun 6, 2019 11:00:37 GMT
How any of them made it up those beaches with machine gun fire amazes me and fills me with great admiration. Just to keep moving up the beach under those conditions was an act of monstrous courage.
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Post by scouse on Jun 6, 2019 11:09:57 GMT
The more I read of the men who stormed those beeches, the more I'm amazed that they could actually run with their massive balls...
The really sad thing is that had the Americans adopted more of Hobart's Funnies, especially the swimming tanks, their losses would have been so much lighter.
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Post by Tim on Jun 6, 2019 11:19:17 GMT
Actually one of the most amazing things to me about D-Day is the relative lack of casualties.
I know there were 10,000 on day 1 but most of those were wounded, the actual deaths were around 4,000.
Given what they were facing when they landed it's incredible that number is so low.
Agree that they were all incredibly brave and the quiet dignity of them all in the intervening years is an example to hold up as well.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 6, 2019 12:01:21 GMT
The dignity of the occasion and the humility I felt for their sacrifice was contrasted by the anti-Trump rent a mob assaulting a pensioner and screaming fascist in his face. A group of people who, if they had been asked to fight real fascists, would have shit their pants and ran a mile.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 12:39:42 GMT
I sat up last night thinking of the advance guard who went in during the night of the 5th, the Para's and glider born infantry seizing choke points like the Pegasus bridge. One of the older blokes here was there in a tank regiment and there are very few things he will talk about. Amazing anyone survived the whole nasty business.
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Post by Alex on Jun 7, 2019 18:34:34 GMT
Some of the stories coming out over the last couple of days sound like something from a Hollywood movie but yet it is all real. The generation of men who fought on those beaches are some of the humblest men to have existed. None of them talk of what they did as heroic but merely just what they had to do. They never received counselling afterwards or had the benefit of a wellbeing department within the army, they just had to get on with life afterwards with images of their mates being blown to bits stuck in their heads.
And yet my generation think it’s ok to attack a man for supporting Donald Trump by throwing milkshakes at him and calling him a nazi. As if they’d ever know what it meant to live under the terror of the nazi regime in the 1930s. It’s just so sad to see how some people have regressed recently.
Seeing May and Macron standing in front of the memorial yesterday really bought back home how frustrating the brexit deadlock is.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 7, 2019 20:30:24 GMT
My younger daughter and I went to the Singapore Museum on our last day out there before heading to the airport. When we started to show mum the photos we took last week-end when we went to see her, she said to skip through the ones that were do do with the war as it still brought back painful memories of how her family were captured and interred by the Japanese.....
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