collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Operation Overlord  (Read 9711 times)

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50475
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2019, 11:37:13 AM »
Did I see somewhere he was there at 15.  just going off facial recognition. Im at work so cant watch video.

Offline KFhunter

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 34512
  • Location: NE Corner
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2019, 11:46:39 AM »
Did I see somewhere he was there at 15.  just going off facial recognition. Im at work so cant watch video.

Yup, he stormed the beaches of Normandy at age 15, his first combat action.  I think he's a Brit.


Offline WapitiTalk1

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+9)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 7899
  • Location: Wet Side, Rainier, WA
  • Groups: RMEF, NRA, US Army (R)
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2019, 12:09:25 PM »

Just watched this on my lunch break... Big Don addresses over 60 WWII survivors on Omaha Beach.  Very powerful speech and recognition of some great Soldiers. 
« Last Edit: June 06, 2019, 12:31:55 PM by WapitiTalk1 »
Darton Archery Maverick II
Traditions Vortek StrikeFire Smoke Pole
Weatherby VG-2 Boomstick
"Poking at a campfire with a stick is one of life's great satisfactions." Patrick F. McManus

Offline Special T

  • Truth the new Hate Speech.
  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 25032
  • Location: Skagit Valley
  • Make it Rain!
    • Silver Arrow Bowmen
    • Silver Arrow Bowmen
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2019, 12:33:17 PM »
I'm going to take this a different direction.

I agree every 7th grader should watch this. I also think all Europeans should as well. I'm not so certain that I would endorse saving them again. History, especially in Europe, repeats itself.

I'm seeing a bunch of self inflicting wounds happening all across that continent. I resent the holier than tho/we are so enlightened sentiment. If they get steam rolled By the Russians or the Muslim hordes, I wont support saving them.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

I sincerely hope you are not serious.
Which part?


How am I supposed to feel?


Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

That part.
When I watch movies like Saving private Ryan, or watch some of the old documentaries  and compare that with how our "frends" act it makes me bitter.

I belive it is noble to help and save the oppressed and weak.  I dont think it is our duty to cover for a population that makes poor decisions and is allowed to do so because of the shelter we provide.

I could give several current examples about NATO spending and such but we have discussed them on here before.

Perhaps 75 years after Normandy  is too far for folks to remember and it is too easy to dismiss the connection. The European arrogance/dismissive nature of America is what really chaps my hide.  Perhaps some of you remeber in 66 when Dean Rusk sec state was ordered by LBJ to ask French president DeGalle if the order to remove all American troops included the 60+k burried troops from WW1 & WW2.


My contempt comes from the obvious threats they face yet welcome these same shackles that will enslave them in the future.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. 

Confucius

Offline Birdgetter

  • WA State Trappers Association
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2017
  • Posts: 578
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #19 on: June 06, 2019, 12:58:16 PM »
I always thought Saving Private Ryan should be mandatory watching in about 7th grade.   So far one of the best depictions I have seen of the day.
Watched as much as class time allowed in shop class today.  :tup:

Offline elkrack

  • Framer
  • Trade Count: (+19)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2009
  • Posts: 3695
  • Location: bonney lake
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2019, 01:12:18 PM »
I always thought Saving Private Ryan should be mandatory watching in about 7th grade.   So far one of the best depictions I have seen of the day.

You are exactly correct! Kids and some young adults have no clue on what these men went through and how pivotal this day was in history! God bless the men that sacrificed then and sacrifice now
life's tough its tougher if your stupid (john wayne)

If you ain’t first your last☝🏻

Offline WapitiTalk1

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+9)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 7899
  • Location: Wet Side, Rainier, WA
  • Groups: RMEF, NRA, US Army (R)
Re: Operation Overlord
« Reply #21 on: June 06, 2019, 01:14:02 PM »
Heroes return to Normandy. 


Darton Archery Maverick II
Traditions Vortek StrikeFire Smoke Pole
Weatherby VG-2 Boomstick
"Poking at a campfire with a stick is one of life's great satisfactions." Patrick F. McManus

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Idaho General Season Going to Draw for Nonresidents by baldopepper
[Today at 11:37:10 AM]


Oregon special tag info by Judespapa
[Today at 11:15:46 AM]


Back up camera by Alchase
[Today at 11:14:35 AM]


Fun little Winchester 1890 project by Alchase
[Today at 11:00:13 AM]


Heard of the blacktail coach? by Bogie85
[Today at 08:16:05 AM]


WDFW's new ship by Fidelk
[Today at 07:55:35 AM]


My Baker Goat Units by Keith494
[Yesterday at 11:08:59 PM]


May/June Trail Cam: Roosevelt Bull Elk & Blacktail Bucks with Promising Growth by Dan-o
[Yesterday at 07:41:24 PM]


Fawn dropped by carlyoungs
[Yesterday at 07:33:57 PM]


2025 Coyotes by Angry Perch
[Yesterday at 01:00:06 PM]


Honda BF15A Outboard Problems by Sandberm
[Yesterday at 12:14:54 PM]


Best/Preferred Scouting App by vandeman17
[Yesterday at 11:38:24 AM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal