Most Important Boating Event EVER

[catastrophe]

http://www.army.mil/d-day/

We wouldn't be enjoying our sport without the dedication of these brave men 65 years ago today.

 

[Chris]

All television should broadcasts should be preempted today and the first half hour of Private Ryan shown in a loop for 24 hours.

From what I've been told by people that were there, they sugar-coated it.

Most of the guys that were there are gone. And to our kids and their kids, they'll mean to them what Civil War combatatnts meant to us- statistics. I'm very proud to have known a handful of men that literally saved the world.

 

[Bobcat]

they actually let spielberg see the films from D-day, very few people have looked at those films because they are so gruesome . I don't know how the guys in the lst's had the courage to run towards the beach.

 

[MarylandMark]

Amen.

 

[old377guy]

thanks for the reminder, guys

 

[MarylandMark]

Sent by me to my Grandfather:

Thinking of you and your service on this D-Day.

Thank you!!

Mark

Response:

Mark, Thanks. It is so important that we remember such days. But for the Graciousness of God, I would not still be here.

I volunteered for the Army Air Corps, March 15, 1942 along with 3 of my closest buddies in high school. They all passed the physical with flying colors, got their wings went to Europe and in less than a year after beginning to fly they had all been ground up in the air war over Europe. I went to clerks school, joined my unit in Savannah Ga ended the war and got home in Dec 1945 -- and still alive 67 years later. Thank God. Granddad

He's in his 80's now and remembers EVERY THING he has ever done. Amazing man!

Here we are at a Celtic Festival last month and the last weekend in May at my engagement party at the bar together

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

My grandfather is 93. He'll still show you the scar on his chest where they removed the "malgnant cancer" that was supposed to take his life with in six months of them finding the tumor. The found the tumor during his physical when he volunteered to fight in WWII. Like I said, they gave him six months to live and sent him home... That was in early 1942.

These guys are living proof that average people can do extrodinary things. They should be a lesson to all of us.

 

[JJ Apache]

Adding my Gratitude and an Amen!

 

[RichL]

Adding my Gratitude and an Amen!

Ditto that.

 

[MarylandMark]

These guys are living proof that average people can do extrodinary things. They should be a lesson to all of us.

"The Greatest Generation"

 

[Playn]

My father turns 87 this year. Here is a picture he took 65 years ago, his craft approaching the beach (Omaha Beach, Normandy France, June 1944)