Vibes to all those who did not survive or were injured June 6, 1944

[applegrove]

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. What they experienced is unimaginable to me

I had relatives in the war, some stateside, some not. We've had to defend democracy from time to time from assaults and power grabs by dictators and monarchies. Our history is one of periodic wars. Now it's on our shores, they're trying domestic methods this time around. They were so sure they didn't bother to cover their tracks very much.

[Auggie]

2. Read the account of one teenager wondering how his high school graduation was going ...

as bullets on either Utah or Omaha flew over his head.

[applegrove]

3. Those men who went on that day..... what heroes.

[Auggie]

5. All of them

So many sacrificed themselves

[mcar]

4. My father was one of the survivors

An 18YO who drove a truck onto the beach, either later that day or the next. He only once talked about it to my brother.

[applegrove]

7. Vibes to your Dad.

[mcar]

8. Thanks. He died in 1987 at age 62

way too young. I still miss him.

[applegrove]

9. Oh that's sad. Well, vibes to his spirit.

[mcar]

10. Thank you. It lives on

[Frasier Balzov]

6. "Saving Private Ryan" does a great job of placing us back then and there.