Anyone On Here Old Enough To Remember D-DAY

[FellowTraveler]

Besides Donnie-BABY. He's older than dirt.

[deepfathom]

No, but I had a 90 year old customer in year 2000, who was at Dunkirk. It must have been the day of the 60th anniversary of the evacuations and he was telling me about it. He was a really quiet, lovely old guy and I was quite shocked by what he said to me. Along the lines of 'I won't be celebrating Dunkirk, I was stuck in a hole dug in the beach for three days, just waiting to be rescued'. That's all he said, but the tone of his voice, the vitriol, and the way he looked spoke volumes about the awful time he had and the horrors he saw.

[Penrithlad]

No, but my Dad was a Glider Pilot and landed his Horsa Glider successfully near Pegasus Bridge.

[FellowTraveler]

They are dying off quickly. It was an honorable war against a real enemy.

All my Uncles who served all over the world have passed. Iwo Jima, New Guinea, Northern Europe, my dad's unit went to Burma - few survived intact. He got discharged for medical reasons before they went. He always said, it was the luckiest day of his life when he got his third hernia.

Becky's dad landed in North Africa and fought the until the end of the war across into Tunisia and then up through Italy until the end of the war. Almost 3 and a half years in theater.

What a time that must have been. And the effort = incredible!

[moorlad]

I joined up on the 40th anniversary of D Day.