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(448 posts)My Dad in the Army Signal Corps of the 101st Airborne stationed first in England then the around day three of D-day invasion drove his jeep from landing boat right onto the floating piers at Normandy. Helped Patton's Army through France and Germany. One of my uncles landed in the early hours of D-day. Later on while in Belgium, he was lucky as he got shot in the leg and thus was in the hospital as his unit was taken and shot by Germans on their way to their defeat at the Battle of the Bulge. Another uncle was in the Navy in the Pacific and only caught a glimpse of Tokyo from his aircraft carrier.
His son, my cousin, and the first of my generation, was a pilot in Vietnam and right before the Tet offensive he was shot down and killed.
I honor them all.
May we only go to war as the very last resort.