Great commercial but they should have had the kid playing the soldier straighten his collar and he should have offered the salute.
Minor details only a vet or active duty guy would notice I know.
The sentiment and message were great though.
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Yeah I had two uncles who were there with the 8th Airforce in Molesworth and another with the 101st. They always had great stories especially my one Uncle who was shot down over Germany and was able to evade capture with a broken collarbone.
I am hoping to make it there next year, but I envy you to be able to have met some of them and experience their stories.
My posts are systematically flagged and deleted/hidden.
Donât expect to find any truth in this thread, except propaganda
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We had friends in our very small town who were D Day vets.
Strangely enough 3 of them were brothers. In prep for the invasion they had not seen each other for many months, communications and travel were tightly controlled, mail heavily censored.
It was only after the war when talking about their D-Day experience that they learned that one of the brothers was flying the tow plane. Another brother was flying the glider.
The third brother was the company commander of the infantry unit in the glider.
He said heâd bitched for years about the crappy job both pilots did that day. Off course by many miles, an extremely hard landing that left quite a few of his men wounded immediately and several dead. It was he said only later after talking to others who had come in by glider that he realized how lucky he was but he was still angry about the casualties.
When he finally learned the whole family connection he said he finally got over it because he knew his brothers had done everything possible to make the trip and landing a success.
They just ran into all of the same problems that plagued so many others that night.
The story was all but unbelievable if you didnât know the men and their character and they even had some photos of the planes on the runway that showed it was absolutely true.
One of the most amazing things bout the success of the invasion was the fact that so many American units had been landed miles from their objectives, scattered all over the countryside, but because of how we are trained they simply found other Americans, Brits, French, and Poles, formed up units, decided on objectives and carried out their orders to the best of their ability no matter how screwed up the landings were.
That kind of individual and unit discipline and ingenuity are what made the landings a success and victory possible.
Quit posting lies and attempting to derail the thread.
The story begins in Germany. In the 1930s, Germany and Japan had a number of scientists icing on the development of nuclear fission. In both of these countries, their leaders sternly forbade them to continue their research. Adolf Hitler said he would never allow anyone in Germany to work to work on such an inhumane weapon.
The Nazis had a major nuclear program all the way up intil the end of the war and Hitler was fanatical, pouring huge resoruces into the program because he intended to bomb NY, DC, Philadelphia and other major east coast cities to force the US to capitulate and sue for peace leaving Europe to him.
The Horton HO-18 was a jet powered intercontinental bomber designes solely for the purposes of nuking the US. It was based off of the Horton HO 229 stealth fighter bomber that would have been used on the continent of Europe to rain down similar death and destruction and would have utterly decimated the allied bombers and fighters had it ever gone into full production.
Quit lying, making a fool of yourself and attempting to derail threads or I will keep burying you in your own bullshit.
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Holy Moly! I come back from vacation and started reading all this! Lol
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
One of my favorite â â â â â too bad you donât understand the quote you keep plastering about.
Since you brought up Einstein and since it very much is in keeping with the subject of the thread.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
It wonât be the US that stands back and lets it happen.
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Only the lowest degenerate would say something like this in a thread that honors our wounded and fallen heroes.
Why were you unable to watch Saving Private Ryan? You were not part of the D Day landings so you were not exposed to any of the trauma or fear they experienced? I could understand a veteran of the D Day landings not watching it but not anyone else.
Were you ever in the Military? If you did serve, did you see combat?
Yes and yes but like everyone else on this site my statements really mean very little. Anyone can say anything they want.
I was not insulting TWR but genuinely interested in why he couldnât watch it. Its up to him to share as much of or as little as he wants.
From what I have observed on here, TWR is more than capable of providing a robust rebuttal.
What branch of the Military did you serve and in what theatre?
Your question is meaningless I could post any old bullshit and you would be none the wiser. I am not sharing personal information on a message board with a poster who hides behind an anonymous name like everyone else.
I could be in my 90s and been at D Day or I could be 17 and lying my ass off or anywhere in between.
Suit yourself! I was just asking a simple question and trying to make conversation, but seems kind of odd that you would ask people to share with you personal information but then turn around and say itâs all meaningless. If itâs all bullshit then why ask in the first place? Why even be here in this forum for that matter if it is all the same to you?
I wasnt asking for personal info just interested to know his reason. If he chose not to reply I wouldnt give it a second thought.
Sharing an opinion is not the same as sharing personal information.
I value my privacy too much.
Fair enough! But I was not asking for personal information and secondly an opinion is also meaningless according to you, so why not value your time like you do your privacy? You are contradicting your own discourse here!