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05-08-2024, 11:22 AM | #1 |
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VE Day May 8th 1945
THANK YOU to the Greatest Generation who literally "saved the world".
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05-08-2024, 11:28 AM | #2 |
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05-08-2024, 11:30 AM | #3 |
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Re: VE Day May 8th 1945
Thanks Pete. Sadly, most of the WW II vets are no longer with us.
I wonder if this day is even mentioned in high school history classes anymore? Last edited by 19Fordy; 05-08-2024 at 11:43 AM. |
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Sure it is in France and young generations often listened to grandpa telling how allied soldiers liberated their country. Take good care
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Re: VE Day May 8th 1945
limited topics here. Newc
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My Dad was a machine gunner in WW2. Fought all across France and Germany, and by the grace of God made it back home. The car he got the day he returned home is the 35 in my avatar. Like all others that fought there he is my hero.
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oldbugger: God Bless your dad. It is such a great tribute to him that you still have his "Victory Celebration" car.
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So true. VJ Day is Sept. 2. Thank goodness for President Truman. |
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05-09-2024, 06:53 AM | #10 |
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Yes, way too many folks have NO IDEA ........ The greatest generation for sure!!
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At car shows I display my car with the December 7th 1941 theme, I have a Hawaii 1941 newspaper on the front seat and play music and news from 1941. I ask the teenagers that pass by what happened on December 7th 1941, most of them have no clue, one girl said the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She went on to say it’s sad they don’t teach history in school anymore.
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I remember VE Day well. My father was driving our '39 Plymouth with my mother, sister and me near Lake Hopatcong, NJ. They were firing cannons over the lake. The noise was deafening.
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05-09-2024, 03:47 PM | #13 |
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I was born on May 8th, 1959 and my Pops served on a submarine in WW2 . . . the "Moray Eel". I think about him, all those who passed before him, those who passed afterwards and about all the veterans and their families that fought and sacrificed for the freedoms we so enjoy!
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Thanks for posting this wonderful picture, Pete.
This parade at "Sling Arms" deserves a caption: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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and then on to Berlin, before the ******* Russians get there.
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19Fordy's opening statement could not be more true. And I was of the understanding that we kinda looked the other way and let the Russians get there first so as to deliver some good old fashioned payback for a couple of nazi forays into Mother Russia. That just might have been my dad talking.
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My Dad landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and met my Mom two months later in Paris.
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Just returned from a trip to Germany that included visiting Dachau concentration camp--very very sobering and chilling. My dad was a B-17 pilot, flew 24 missions from England, including 4 Chowhound missions after VE day, dropping food to the starving civilians. The book "A Higher Call" is a must read for anyone interested in WWII, gives a whole different light on the attitude of much of the German people.
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I stand corrected. That's a big gap.
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