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Remembering D-Day
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Imperial Thoughts, Life in the Empire12:26 PM
We direct you to this most excellent post by LC & IB Dave in Texas, who says it all so very very well.
As to myself, I observe a moment of silence to honor the brave men who stormed those seemingly impregnable beaches that day and, through doing so, bought the freedom without which I’d be speaking either German or Russian today.
I truly am not worthy.
I also remember a press whose primary job wasn’t to undermine the war effort and provide aid and comfort to our enemies in any way they could, who understood that freedom of the press comes with responsibilities attached, who knew that the future of the free world wasn’t just a tool for them to use to get back at politicians that they didn’t like.
And I remember politicians who understood that wars need to be fought with victory in mind rather than “international opinion” or Queensbury Rules, who knew better than to micro-manage every little detail from their comfy desks in D.C., who didn’t run away from the war as soon as they realized that things get broken and men get killed in armed conflict, politicians who knew that the only legacy worth having is the legacy of standing up to evil and destroying it no matter what the cost in the opinion polls.
We had them then, we don’t have them now.
Heaven help us.
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To those that believe, it is our hope.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:40 PMUsing
Thank G-d the Mediots that are running rampant today were not around then. They would have made damn sure that the plans were published on the front page of the NYT as soon as their hot slimey little paws got hold of them.
For those Brave men who gave all. Thank you.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:33 PMUsing
And I remember citizens that understood that evil must be confronted everywhere it’s found and defeated at all costs. It’s messy, bloody and costly, but the alternative is too terrible to contemplate.
We had them then, they’re watching American Idol now.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:10 PMUsing
Jack, we do have a few of those types of citizens, the brave ones I mean. They’re serving overseas right now, or serving stateside trying to crack the next terrorist plot. They’re watching the airports, no doubt pissed at the PC codes. And some of them lost their lives on 9/11 evacuating the Towers, or overtaking terrorists on Flight 93….
They exist, they’re just not as vocal as the protestors who march every day. The Silent Majority, I know we can’t be the minority, is getting more and more PISSED OFF. Let’s see how they vote next election. Anyone less than a Reagan type would be an insult to those rows of White Crosses at St. Mere Eglise and near Pont De Huc. Anyone less than a patriot would nullify the deaths of those 4000 or so killed on D-Day (not to downplay the 3400 servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan in 6 years of fighting).
To the Greatest Generation, we salute you.
To the revisionist bastards and slanderers, we curse you.
And to the dark ones behind the revisionists and traitors, we’re counting the day before we get you all to ourselves…..
Now, here’s how a general spoke back in WWII-
Damn I miss Patton. My grandfather had the privilege of serving under George S Patton from 1944 to 1945 after D-Day. We need a Patton, not some RINO squishfest. We need a warrior, not a Wepubwican. We need an American, not some globalist appeaser.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:24 PMUsing
That picture has such an impact….What does it take to jump off a boat and do the things that these guys did.
I colorized the above picture after discussing it with a friend of mine, he made the comment about how it puts you right there at the landings. I said something like: “Imagine how much impact it would have in color”, me and my big mouth…..so here it is:
This is my tribute to the heroes of D-Day
Gold Beach
Sword Beach
Juno Beach
Omaha Beach
Utah Beach
hallowed ground, we must make sure their legacy never disappears.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:53 PMUsing
Patton,,did,,not,,like,,the,,communists.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:56 PMThe communists thought the ivory grips on his Colt.45 Peacemaker were pure cowboy.
My man.
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Cheapshot,
The Germans fear of Patton and his counterfeit army poised to hit the Pas de Calais was the biggest factor in them keeping their Panzer divisions up north and away from the real invasion in Normandy. Talk about your reputation preceding you…..
June 6th, 2007 at 4:00 PMUsing
Sorry to hog this post, but D-Day is a sacred day to me. I haven’t seen anything of substance about this day or what it means, but the media is all atwitter about our 3500th casualty in the war…..I counter by yelling this at the msm:
Ho Ho Hey Hey, how many jihadis did we kill today?
“crickets chirping, paint chipping, oceans drying up”
…goddamn them all to hell….I wish it were 1945 so we could read the dispatches of Ernie Pyle…you know, a REAL American journalist.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:22 PMUsing
Jay, don’t worry about hogging the post. My gramps fought in WWII, 4th US ID, so WWII is sacred in my fam. Also, his brother was killed in Luzon, when MacArthur was re-taking the Philippines from the Nipsters, oops, the Japanese (who still have yet to apologize for Pearl Harbor, Bataan, the Rape of Nanking, Manchurian Medical Experiment camps, beheading POWs, the Bridge on the River Kwai, etc…..)
I do think ole Patton would be up to bitch slapping the journalists of nowadays. He HATED journalists, minus Ernie Pyle. HATED them, because they took him out of context so many fuckin times. Also, since he hated commies, and journalists loved the commies (see NY Times gushfest over Stalin in 1930s), Patton and the media were natural enemies.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:30 PMUsing
BauerPower,
I’ll recommend a book about the 4th ID that you might find interesting, lots of personal accounts of the Utah landing and advance inland to hook up with the paratroopers…hell, your grandfather may be in it!!
Anyway, the book is called Utah Beach, written by Joseph Balkoski
It’s a follow up to his equally great book on the Omah a landings….both are highly recommended.
God Bless your gramps, he and his buddies did one hell of a job.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:37 PMUsing
I just had a great day at Camp Clark, right outside Nevada, MO. A summer camp for kids, but not just any kids. It’s full of JROTC cadets who are the best in their schools (in Missouri). They are attending the Leadership Education Training being held there this week and next.
Some of the things they did seemed kind of silly, until I understood the purpose behind the activity. Some times the cadets failed at the proposed activity but that was just a prelude to the real learning they went through when the instructors spoke to them afterwards and pointed out how they could have improved their performance. No one was condemned for not achieving the objective, it was a learning experience.
The kids themselves were great. After a hard day they still had enthusiasm and willingness to do more.
As a country we’ve had bad times and good and I don’t mean to denigrate the contribution of anyone but I have to say I think we may just be witnessing the resurgence of a public attitude that is necessary to create a ‘greatest’ generation.
As for the cadets, their instructors and their support personnel, God bless ‘em, everyone.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:42 PMUsing
Jaybear
I was all set to prove you wrong about this not being covered in the media, but dammit you are right! pretty serious anniversary not to cover. My dad didn’t fight–he was on the boat over when the war ended. He did work for “Stars and Stripes.”
I have nothing but respect for the people who fought in WWII and am glad they came home to parades.
My mother lived under Hitler–seems to have contributed to her twisted personality (may she rest in peace). Actually, she was initially denied entry to this country because she had participated in Hitler Youth. At some point, they figured out that was necessary for survival. Her best friend was Jewish–she was not a Nazi!
June 6th, 2007 at 5:05 PMUsing
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June 6th, 2007 at 5:20 PMUsing
Fabulous job there Jaybear!! An excellent tribute. Makes me want to break out some black and whites and give that a try. My PSP has been sulking because I’ve been neglecting it lately.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:22 PMUsing
The codewords for the operation, including the code for the operation itself, was published in the The Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle before D-day.
The difference between then and now is shown by this statement from the author of the crossword puzzles:
“They went to Bury St Edmunds where my senior colleague Melville Jones (the paper’s other crossword compiler) was living and put him through the works. But they eventually decided not to shoot us after all.”
So you see, there is no longer a penalty for treason, where once, even a misplaced word that could cost lives, was dealt with harshly.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:43 PMUsing
Wonderful tribute. All I can say is thanks for giving your all. Love the colorized picture-looks great.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:11 PMUsing
Bloody brilliant, Jaybear!
Now THAT puts you right there! Sent shivers down my spine.
As to the treasonous journaljizzmers publishing classified Intel methods like the money tracking program, I know just how to deal with those:
You tie ‘em to a pole, then tie a rope around their necks, just tight enough to keep it from slipping over their chins. Hammer a nail through the rope to keep it from slipping down the pole.
Then you shovel hot coal beneath their bare feet.
Roast or strangle.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:27 PMUsing
Dad………..
June 6th, 2007 at 8:14 PMYou spoke of hot hydraulic oil and cold sweat……of flak and shudering engines, your aircraft mortally wounded…..of your capture…..
Of Red Cross rations and rats to eat….
Of your feet being broken with rifle butts after your first escape from the camp.
How you stayed gone the second time, digging your way out with that little folding can opener you willed to me…along with your final flag.
I still have that can opener, Dad……
Yes Dad…I am unworthy, to be called half the man you were to be taken as the greatest of compliments.
Humbly, I say thanks……
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Just complained to all-knowing spouse about lack of D-day coverage. He said there was an on-line LA Times article about. Now this is really cool–apparently one of the satellite stations is re-broadcasting the announcements as they came in over the next 2 days and playing 40s music around it. Don’t know which one.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:55 PMUsing
Oh, we have them today alright. They’re just tucked away by the media where nobody can hear them. Had the media payed as much attention to them as they do the buffoons we have in public office running their popularity contests (Because that’s all the elections are these days, anyhow), we would have people in office who don’t back down in the face of an uneducated, moronic public of sheeple who don’t understand the danger they’re in when war is thrust upon them and THOUSANDS of their fellows are mass-murdered by overseas, religious zealots.
How I long for the days my grandfather told me about…
Our boys who went overseas, and the nurses who tended them, sacrificed more than we’ll ever appreciate over there.
And today, our soldiers are mediacized into mindless, uneducated (As the bastard John Kerry insists), grunts who have nothing but the murder of kittens, puppies and defenseless women and children on their minds.
Go to hell, modern media. Go to hell and take the freaks you publicized with you.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:47 PMUsing
As Richard Marcinko has written, “The Marquis of Queensbury was a queen, and he was buried.”
June 6th, 2007 at 11:51 PMUsing
A few other D-days to remember as well;
Algiers
Tarawa
Bouganville
Sicily
Anzio
Pelileu
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Guam
Saipan
Tinian
Eniwetok
Roi Namur
Kwajalein
God bless every grunt who ever stepped down that ramp and waded into Hells open maw. Bless them all.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:54 PMUsing
Ike’s message to the troops on D-day
June 6th, 2007 at 11:57 PMUsing
Also, remember the Battle of Midway (June 4-7, 1942).
June 7th, 2007 at 12:33 AMI remember that someone made a fake documentary, called This is DNN (I think) that reported on WWII if the 1940’s news media was like it was now…I ought to go buy a copy.
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I would love to read that Sean, I’ve seen snippets of the same type of thing here and there. If ya find it, please post a link.
June 7th, 2007 at 1:08 AMUsing
Check this link out, it was the only one I could find for purchase, but it appears that this is directly to the producer…
June 7th, 2007 at 7:48 AM
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OK, let me try again, my “enter” finger got the best of me…
This is DNN
June 7th, 2007 at 7:51 AMUsing
What Crunchie said
A couple more D-Days to put in there:
Guadalcanal
Dieppe
Inchon
Remember them all, and thank them when you see them. They won’t be around much longer.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:46 AMUsing