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  cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

  Damn. URL screwed up.

  Try this one.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qeCNg8fO0

  This URL works. Sorry the other one was fouled up.

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    AntiNeoCon5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Wasn't that beach invasion scene on Saving Private Ryan realistic? Gave me chills. My brother got stuck in the South Pacific for 38 months, my cousin was killed during the Normandy invasion. The majority of my family has served, and yes we need to remember the price they all paid for our freedom. I would encourage all non-veterans to visit a VA hospital sometime, freedom damn sure isn't free.

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      Ciera-Marie5 months, 2 weeks ago

      ANC agree with you regarding Saving Private Ryan. All the WWII vets that where in the theater with me thought so.

      Thank you for your family's service and scarifices. I agree with you about volunteering to help vets. I'm not sure but maybe the Vets Centers could use some volunteers. What about Veterans homes (Miliarty version of Nursing home.)? I know the Twin Ciites has one. I also know Stand Downs can use volunteers. If anyone ever has a chance to volunteer at a VA, Vet Center, Veterans home or Stand Down you will not regret it.

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      cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

      ANC:

      Yeah, it sure was. Like I said my father in law had to get up and leave. He said he felt like he was back on the beach and he just didn't ever want to be there under those circumstances again.

      As far as being realistic. Yeah I felt myself hunching down and trying to make myself as small as possible. The sounds of the bullets as they passed sounded so real.

      Very good movie.

      As far as the VA. Oh yeah.

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    mcgrievysr5 months, 2 weeks ago

    cowboygrandpa----Thank you. Lest we forget.

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    y_soitenly5 months, 2 weeks ago

    cowboygrandpa,

    Send a quick message to the Anchor thats on duty here today. Perhaps they can fix the link for you, since this is an important date in history.

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    cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

    I've heard so much about being patriotic. These men didn't just mouth the words they lived them and some died for them.

    Democrats and Republicans a like. They put a side the less important rhetoric and gave what they had for their country.

    These are the true patriots. Not the flag wavers who scream for more war. But the humble dog faces who did the fighting, living an dieing for our freedom.

    So the next time you want to say hurrah for America. Thank a vet. Not the stinking politicians' who have screwed this country up.

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      BronxBomber5 months, 2 weeks ago

      This is late in coming but thanks CBGP.

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        BronxBomber5 months, 2 weeks ago

        Come to think of it. Why isn't this in the "Anchor's Recommend" slot instead of some race horse? Surely the blood,sweat, toil, and tears of our beloved veteran's who have given they're all for our freedom are being neglected and take for granted yet again. Tis' a shame really.

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        cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

        No sweat BB.

        How are you doing?

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          BronxBomber5 months, 2 weeks ago

          Fine but hot in NY but it's not the heat it's the humility CBGP. Hope it's nice where you're at.

          :o)

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            cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

            BB:

            Not bad, in the 80's

            Going to Baseball game today. My granddaughters are in a cheerleading program that is putting on a show before the game.

            Makes me happy to the kids doing something they enjoy and that they get some recogntiton for doing the good things instead of causing trouble. LOL

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  cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

  My first father in law landed at Omaha. When he saw Saving Private Ryan he had to walk out of the movie. It was to close to being real for him. We owe these men a debt of gratitude we can never pay.

  I know they still carry the hell of that war in their mind.

  Thank You to all the Brave men a women who fought to keep us free in WWII.

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    CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Outstanding Cowboy!

    Our Country and our principles, essence, as the United States of America were not come by easily, they were hard fought for and to be cherished! This country is no accident, many have sacrificed so that we might have what is so easy to take for granted. The things that, I think, make this the most wonderful country in the world in which to live, were not easily come by.

    We reap the dedication of our parents and grandparents, their hard work, their dedication to certain values and tenets.

    What we have is no accident, our parents and their parents, and their parents, sacrificed dearly and worked from sun-up to sun-down... What a precious gift!!

    Thanks Cowboy, I know you have carried more than your fair share too!!! God bless America!!! God bless you!!!

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      cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Thanks CA and God Bless you.

      My father in law and I used to get along very well. He was the one vet from WWII who opened up and told me what he truly felt. About how the citizens couldn't appreciate what we did for them.

      The man had part of his ear torn off from a German L88 shell and as deaf in that ear.

      He watched as his son went to Nam and came home a changed sad boy in a mans body. We used to drink a little Wild Turkey and then he'd reminisce about drinking Four Roses whiskey with his buddies.

      Yeah what they lived thru then watched their sons live thru. Well I just pray they get a special place in heaven. Because they served their time in hell.

      Cactus Annie; thanks many have done more than their fair share and all should not be forgotten.

      Again to the men and women who served so long ago my utmost love and respect for you and your families.

      God Bless America and all who have served her.

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        CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

        My Dad is a WWII veteran. He never spoke about it until one day were looking up some medicine on line and I got him to tell me his group number and we did a quick search and wound up here: http://www.461st.org/

        First we found his plane, in the nose art, then we even found a picture of him, and the flood gates opened. I got to spend an evening with my little 18 year old, Kansas farm boy daddy. It was magnificent, one of the most treasured evenings of my life! Since then I have learned a lot more, I am really thankful for the people who run that site, the internet is a real blessing in a lot of ways.

        "God Bless America and all who have served her." AMEN to that!!!

        All the way back through the Revolutionary War. The farmers, the builders, the pioneers, the entrepreneurs, without their dedication and perserverance who knows what our daily lives might be like today. We built a Nation, one Nation, under God. We built, and we protected ourselves.

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          cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

          That is great Annie. I'm going to try and look up my dads and both of my father in laws history.

          Yeah this nation loves peace but we now how to war when we need to.

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            CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

            "Don't Tread on Me" Yes, we need to protect ourselves and our ideals; and treasure, not trash or change, our rich history.

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          blinkers5 months, 2 weeks ago

          What a fine story, CA.

          For those veterans, like your Dad, who thankfully have survived into the Internet age, and are able to have the sort of experience he was able/is able to have, the experience and emotions must be indescribable.

          I had an uncle who went ashore not long after D-Day and was not far behind the first groups who met up with the Russians on the Elbe. Apparently he said very very little about his time -- he died when I was just a kid, but his daughter, my cousin, has told me some things she'd heard from her Mother.

          I think perhaps men & women who've been in the thick of war feel instinctively that they can never ever truly convey what it's like, to those who've not been there and are thus reticent to even try. Just a conjecture.

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              CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

              Miami County, but my Great-grandpa was one of the original settlers in Western Kansas, Ness County, I never met my great grandpa, but my grandpa was born in 1880, and had some good stories about Dodge City and riding down there on horseback when he was a teen.

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          splitrch5 months, 2 weeks ago

          Annie, There are a lot of sites like the 461st. I found my Dad's old unit on line too. He was in the 852 EAB (Engineer, Aviation Battalion). Before the invasion his outfit built airfields in England for the bombers. After the invasion they built forward airstrips for the fighters to help keep the advance moving.

          I wish I had found the site when he was still alive. I know he would have been thrilled.

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            CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

            I had a couple of uncles in England, I just went and looked at a picture I pulled off an old neg, but it was some of the 703 engineering guys. One uncle's CO was Jimmy Stewart, the other Uncle flew a P38 Mustang, "Champagne Cocktail", escort. The 461st was in Italy and flew the Liberator, B-24.

            I am glad we do not all have to speak German now days...

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          cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

          JohnQ:

          Yeah, my second father in law. He would call me and talk to me. Then he'd hang up watch a movie and call me back. LOL

          He just didn't want me to see the pain or he didn't want to see the pain. He had four brothers fight in WWII. Two died, that was always hard on him. When he buried his last brother two months before he died. He said well I'm the last. They have gone on and are waiting for me. I wonder if my two brothers who died young still look the same.

          We talked and he said he was ready to go find out. He was tired and had done his job. I know I will see hi and the others as well. But it will be a celebration of no war only love.

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          y_soitenly5 months, 2 weeks ago

          JQP,

          In Saving Private Ryan, they talked about the Sullivan Brothers.

          The Sullivan brothers were five siblings who all died during the same incident in World War II, the sinking of the light cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52), the vessel on which they all served.

          As a direct result of the Sullivans' deaths, the U.S. War Department adopted the Sole Survivor Policy.

          It is also remembered here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers

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            y_soitenly5 months, 2 weeks ago

            Re: Saving Private Ryan movie

            The Niland Brothers were a group of four American brothers from Tonawanda, New York serving in the military during World War II. Of the four, two survived the war, but for a time it was believed that only one, Frederick Niland, had survived. Frederick was sent back to the United States to complete his service, and only later learned that his brother Edward, presumed dead, was actually captive in a Japanese POW camp in Burma. Steven Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan is loosely based on the brothers' story.

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        lvrofwolves5 months, 2 weeks ago

        I think one reason a lot of people don't appreciate it is because they cannot imagine how it was, and really...how can one do that without being there? I think there is a lot of interest in hearing the stories, but many cannot share, and again...who would want to relive that nightmare?

        WW2 is where they must have come up with the term war is hell.

        Can anyone imagine being on front line for a year? wearing basically the same clothes, living daily life in the elements sometimes with snow knee deep, sleeping in a hole covered with branches and 1,000s of other things most will never ever experience thanks to those who did. they truly deserve our utmost respect and gratitude.

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          Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago

          No. It was general Sherman in the Civil War. That was just as bad if not worse. We were fighting ourselves. Both sides were Americans.

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          bill-smith5 months, 2 weeks ago

          I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here.

          Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!

          --William Tecumseh Sherman

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    splitrch5 months, 2 weeks ago

    My Dad didn't land on June 6th. He landed a couple of weeks later and was in every battle thereafter until the end of the war. He went to see Saving Private Ryan - even though my Mom begged him not to go by himself. He did anyway and was profoundly effected by the film. This from a man who suffered PTSD and never had a decent night's sleep after his service. I can't even begin to imagine what these heroes went through. We must never forget what they did for us. Likewise we must honor the service and sacrifice of their grandchildren serving today.

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  Dicax_Maximus5 months, 2 weeks ago

  Ace post CGP - Too many HAVE forgotten......

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    cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

    DM:

    Thanks. We have to remind people. Other wise we will end up there again. To many have died to let it be forgotten. I mean I know those men would not want other men and women to have to suffer what they went thru.

    That is the thing. We all fight hoping it is the last war.

    When are the stupid greedy rulers going to realize war sucks.

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      DeadXXXManXXXTalkin5 months, 2 weeks ago

      ''When are the stupid greedy rulers going to realize war sucks.''

      when their money no longer insulates them from the reality of what they advocate

      unless they are evil, then all bets are off.

      ----

      My Uncle is nice enough to answer questions about his 3 years hopping islands fighting the Japanese

      But I'm usually nice enough not to ask them

      sometimes when he tells about his WW2 experiences, I think I should have a recorder going. what he says is that interesting and fascinating.

      I will note here that he was against the invasion of Iraq in the beginning, and told me 'the only reason we're going over there is oil, period'

      think I was gonna argue with him?

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      simonsez5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Maybe that will be the legacy of this one ...

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    Ciera-Marie5 months, 2 weeks ago

    DM I agree.

    There is a Veteran's Museum in Duluth MN that is trying to get as many Vet's and non vets stories as possible.

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  blinkers5 months, 2 weeks ago

  cbg, great to see someone DID remember this crucial date in history & thanks for the call. I never tire of reading about this day and hearing from those who were there, or connected with it in some way or another.

  The world is unlikely to see another amphibious invasion on the scale of that far off day. It was a masterpiece of international/Allied cooperation, especially considering some of the egos involved! And was ultimately successful in achieving its goal.

  (But let's not forget firstly,the bungled German defences, and secondly, the superb decoy work carried out by the various Allied intelligence agencies which convinced Hitler the invasion was coming across the narrowest gap between England and the European mainland)

  Excellent story, cbg. My congrats!

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    cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

    blinkers:

    Thanks.

    My biggest fear is that so many have forgotten or just don't care anymore. That we forget just how much blood and sacrifce the war cost.

    My father in law told me the sea was red that day. Red with blood of soldiers.

    If we have forgotten so much? Have the Germans, Italians and the Japanese?

    Are we heading into another peiod of mass insanity caused by the need for oil?

    I worry that if not remembered the losses will be much greater this time.

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      blinkers5 months, 2 weeks ago

      To my mind, memories of historic events like the D-Day invasion (and the titanic battles the Russian Allies were having on the Eastern front) should always be kept alive, mostly because of the appalling human cost of it all, and also as a way to keep ramming home the message "never again".

      I don't know which is worse -- to just forget, or to not care in the first place.

      I live in land which has chosen to forget its war record and in some cases has attempted revolting whitewashes of the more notorious deeds, BUT, the lesson seems to have been learned, nevertheless. Japan remains the world's only nation to have a War renouncing clause in its (American written) constitution.

      True, cbg, any "next time" the losses would be far far worse, we can only hope that ongoing conflagrations, horrific as they are, are like bushfires (NO pun). If they are kept under control, the forest itself will not burn down. Wishful thinking? Hope not.

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        jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

        You are getting at a Good Analogy, Blinkers. The strategic thinking underlying the Iraq "bushfire" is precisely the concept of a controlled burn to prevent a major forest fire.

        Never forgetting "the appalling human cost of it all" is the first essential step, but not the only step, to preventing conflagration again.

        Cowboy, your realization that "the need for oil" could be the tripwire for a massive conflatration is right on the money. I would add to that simple fact that it is not simply the need, it is daily need for massive amounts of it. The tripwire this time is far shorter than it has ever been in human history.

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          Beau78905 months, 2 weeks ago

          Except in Iraq, we allowed our "controlled fire" to destroy the entire country, removing Saddam and creating chaos for several years.

          A "controlled fire" in Iraq would have been isolation of Saddam and nullification of any influence he may have had outside of his own country, kind of like what we did there in 1991. The way the Iraq strategy was implemented under Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, we allowed our fire to burn out of control there.

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            jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

            Saddam was not Methuselah. The conditions for chaos already existed. The invasion did not create them.

            The tactics implemented under Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld should be called into question. It would be foolish not to. That does not mean that all of their tactics were bad. Some were, some weren't... as is the case with virtually every military/strategic endeavor.

            However, it is very important to NOT conflate possible tactical errors with strategic issues, particularly as we know from the remembrances of D-Day and other such battles how bad things can get when the forest fire burns out of control.

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              Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 2 weeks ago

              No one is so stupid as to invade a country and have zero plans as to how to secure it. I refuse to believe any adult with an IQ of 80 honestly can accept that. We must never ever take the the patriotic service of good men and women and use it for ideological or profit oriented purposes, it is simply obscene.

              Thanks for posting this, my uncle received a congressional medal of honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade saving his entire unit in WWII. To see our military used as policemen, as pawns in a fossil fuel-political game dishonors the service of great men like my uncle, it cheapens their sacrifice.

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                Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago

                This is about D-Day and their sacrifice. You have to cheapen it with your liberal rant.

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                Codi69345 months, 2 weeks ago

                We don't have the courage or the stomache to fight a war now like we did then. The cut and run public dishonor ALL of our vets, past and present.

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                jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

                "No one is so stupid as to invade a country and have zero plans as to how to secure it. I refuse to believe any adult with an IQ of 80 honestly can accept that. We must never ever take the the patriotic service of good men and women and use it for ideological or profit oriented purposes"

                None of those apply.

                "To see our military used as policemen, as pawns in a fossil fuel-political game"

                We, and particularly the company of men your uncle served with, honor his service. What was the end game of the war your uncle served in? Had it nothing to do with politics and resources? Do you dishonor the memory of your uncle by being so naive?

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                  Beau78905 months, 2 weeks ago

                  You don't believe that we invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam without a plan to secure the country?

                  Now that it's five years later, if there was a plan to secure the country, we should be able to determine what it was and whether it was successful or failed.

                  Can you tell me what the plan was? Because I honestly didn't see any effort to secure anything other than the oil fields and Saddam's palaces.

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              Beau78905 months, 2 weeks ago

              The conditions for chaos existed. And Saddam kept them in check, however brutally.

              We removed that check and failed to secure the borders and to provide emergency management services to the people for whom we were now responsible.

              Not only the tactics, but also the entire strategy and the rationale behind it of deposing Saddam, were wrong.

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                svensun5 months, 2 weeks ago

                You know, one could have made the same argument in favor of Hitler: "The conditions for chaos existed. And [Hitler] kept them in check, however brutally."

                It's not sad, but tragic for the human race, that so many have learned so little from history, especially on a commemoration of such an event as D-Day.

                "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

                If you just learned THAT from studying history, you would be immeasurably better off.

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                  Beau78905 months, 2 weeks ago

                  There is no parallel between Hitler and Saddam, or pre-WWII Germany and pre-2003 Iraq.

                  Hitler didn't keep chaos in check. He fostered chaos, creating radical divides between political parties in his country, and scapegoating non-Aryans for all of post-WWI Germany's problems.

                  There was no threat of civil war in Germany, and no reason to believe various factions would fight there after Hitler was removed. There were also no warring factions that needed to be kept in check by Hitler in pre-war Germany, as there have been in Iraq for centuries.

                  It is very sad indeed that you seem to have learned lessons that are incorrect from history.

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                    jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

                    It is very true that conditions weren't exactly the same. In the middle east, the tripwire to disaster was (and is) immearurably shorter, the consequences of an Iraqi civil war and/or a war of agression on Iraq by its neighbors (and the consequential spread in the region and beyond) is far more serious than anything that triggered WWII. Ask yourself this question, Could the world economy in 1939 - 1945 and beyond have survived without the exports of Poland, Belguin, France and Russia?

                    If you truly believe that the U.S. should not use its military as "policemen" in the "fossil fuel game", you are a fool beyond all measure.

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                      Beau78905 months, 2 weeks ago

                      You seem to be stating that this war in Iraq was about oil, as the White House has denied and the rest of us have been saying for quite a while.

                      So if indeed it was, weren't we doing a fine job protecting our oil interests inthe Middle East before the invasion? After all, crude oil cost about a third in mid-2002 of what it does now. And gasoline prices were less than half.

                      If our military are being used as "policemen" in the "fossil fuel game," as you say, they're bungling the job to an extent never before seen.

                      Unless of course, our oil men in the White House wanted the price to skyrocket. Then our "policemen in the "fossil fuel game" are doing an excellent job. Unfortunately, though that benefits them, it's certainly against the best interests of their country.

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                        jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

                        The strategic importance of Iraq is clearly about oil... its oil and, more particularly, the region's oil. The administration never denied that. They have denied that we are there to take the oil. Our efforts there never were and never will be about taking Iraqi oil... even though that vacuous idea has been a constant tone poem of the left.

                        Our military is doing a fantastic job of policing the region. Their job never was to keep the price under control. You seem to be implying that our presence in the region is what is causing prices to rise. Of that, you couldn't be more wrong. Correlation does not imply causation... particularly in this matter.

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                          Beau78905 months, 2 weeks ago

                          So...we were there to *secure* the oil, not take it, and we accomplished that. And it was the strategic plan all along. That's what you're saying?

                          But we plunged the country into chaos and opened the borders to terrorists (or failed to secure them--though Saddam had).

                          How does that make the oil MORE secure than it was before we invaded?

                          And if our presence in the region is not the cause of the price rise, then what is? Speculation? Doesn't instability cause speculation?

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                            jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

                            All good questions.

                            That WAS the strategic plan all along Beau.

                            Iraq did go into chaos after Saddam was removed... some of that was due to tactical mistakes on our part, most of that was inevitable. After all, there are 3 clashing ethinicities and enormous oil wealth at stake. Saddam, a Sunni, kept the lid on through his enormous capacity for brutality. However, he had gone so far off the reservation that even a realpolitik approach on our part was no longer viable. We were faced an Iraq and/or Middle East in chaos under every viable scenario imaginable, including 1. if he had WMD, 2. if he had none, 3. if he died, 4. if he didn't 5. if his conventional forces were strong, 6. if they were weak.

                            The scenario with WMD risked explosion, with him placing the whole ME, including the straits, under his influence. The scenarios with him having none, with his military weak and/or him dying risked implosion with the Iranians reaching for Iraq's southern oil and Iraq unable to defend.

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                            jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago

                            When the Iranians took the Southern Oil Fields (make no mistake, that is why they continue a proxy war), the Kurds would attempt independence. They'd have no choice. The Turks would counter and re-take the north (formerly part of Ottoman Turkey) with its oil fields... and they would crush the Kurds mercilessly. Keep it in mind that Turkey will never allow an independent Kurdistan. All of the ME would be at risk for war. That would be the real chaos I am talking about. The fact that we are sitting in Iraq keeps the Iranians at bay as well as it keeps the Kurds and Turks from getting too crazy. And, while we are there, it gives the three ethnicities time to work out an oil & power-sharing arrangement. Will they get there? We all had better hope. If they don't, look for the beginnings of WWIII.

                            In re: Price. Demand is the primary cause. Speculation has some effect... and the oil market does have some worry that we may have to move to emasculate Iran.

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                    svensun5 months, 2 weeks ago

                    "There were also no warring factions that needed to be kept in check by Hitler in pre-war Germany"-Beau

                    You claim that I have learned incorrect lessons from history? You are not aware of the 'conditions for chaos' that existed in the streets of German cities under the Weimar Republic?

                    Germany was rife with revolutionary fervor during that period, which partly explains how and why Hitler came to power.

                    And you don't think Saddam 'fostered chaos', by starting two wars of aggression against his neighbors, brutally murdering and surpressing ethnic and religious groups in his country, developing AND using WMD, training and funding international terrorism, etc, etc?

                    You seem to have an odd notion of what it means to 'keep chaos in check.'

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      Ciera-Marie5 months, 2 weeks ago

      The French are just finally honoring their veterans, North African, who fought in two world wars. It took the making of a movie to get their penisons unfrozen. For 47 years their pensions had been frozen. How many died needing it?

      I saw the preview for a movie, "Days of Glory" about them and sat in stunned silence. President Jacques Chirac reinstated the pensions that were frozen for 47 years after seeing it.

      Here's a link I found about it on the Seattle Pi webpage: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/305699_glo...

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        Dicax_Maximus5 months, 2 weeks ago

        Thanks CM - I'll catch up with that one !!

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  Spadecaller5 months, 2 weeks ago

  Thanks Gramps,

  To this day, my father can barely speak of his experiences on D Day. After surviving the Battle of the Bulge, marching through France, Germany, and helping liberate Buchenwald, he seldom speaks about it. There was no name for PTSD then but we had a nation of returning veterans seriously affected by the horrific bloodshed from that one day. I doubt if the full story can ever be told...

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    cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Spadecaller:

    I know that when my father in law would speak of it. It was only after a fair amount of Whiskey. Most of the time it was in response to something I would say about the war being fresh in my mind.

    A look would come over him like he was back in the field. His eyes would harden and squint, his face would be tight, his hands would quiver a little, his voice a little tighter than normal, he'd ****** his head like he was listening for certain sounds.

    It always struck me that he seemed far away. I could identify with that, but it frightened me that after 35 years he would still have that.

    Now I know why. It never leaves you.

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      Spadecaller5 months, 2 weeks ago

      It never leaves. At least, I stopped getting the nightmares at night.

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    Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago

    It had a name.

    Civil War - soldiers heart and nostalgia

    WW1 - shell shock

    WW2 - battle fatigue

    Today - combat stress reaction

    Every war there were soldiers that had the problem. Sometimes it had a name and sometimes not.

    PTSD is a more generalized problem that civilians can have by going through a major stress like being taken captive or involved in a shooting like at a school.

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  hurr15 months, 2 weeks ago

  Thanks for bringing D Day June 6th 1944 back to us. We need to remenber.

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  walden35 months, 2 weeks ago

  Think we still have it in us?

  Thank Dog we did back then. I also understand why the young are drafted.

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    CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Recruited might be more accurate...

    And you "dyslexic" reference to my Lord is very offensive, might want to refrain from scorning others even if you have a long held resentment of your Father...

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  texangelwings5 months, 2 weeks ago

  That video speaks volumes! All those soldiers step up to the plate and gave their all! My father was stationed in both France and Belgium, during WWII. I found a picture of him and some of his buddies, along with a pretty French lady and moment of laughter. Dad never talked much about the war. He mentioned once that he was in the group that moved ahead of troops looking for Bouncing Betty's.

  This video is a reminder of why we must learn from history!

  Thanks to all for the above comments!

  Thanks cowboygrandpa, nice find!

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  Locky125 months, 2 weeks ago

  It is very unfortunate that with the loss of life we experienced that day, if that were ever to happen again, nobody in our media would ever call it a victory as D-Day truly was.

  Quite the opposite, it would be called a disaster and there would be a demand to bring all troops home immediately.

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    Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 2 weeks ago

    The occupied media? -your kidding. A free press reported on WWII, not this joke of a corporatist cheerleader propaganda machine.

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      Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Just can't stop the liberal rant can you. It is sickening in this place.

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    Ciera-Marie5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Agree to a small point with the first part of Locky's comment.

    The difference between the media then and now:

    Then more truth about what was happening on the front lines. Could see some footage from the frontlines.

    Now can't even see an image of a flag draped coffin.

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      Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago

      That is right. Flag draped coffins are for the family. There are pictures coming from there all the time. There are the embedded reporters there now. Hardly any bad news so they don't want to report good news. The films from there are not about our troops doing anything bad so they are not run. That is the bias. No bad news is no news.

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        CactusAnnie5 months, 2 weeks ago

        Truth is, I would not want my loved ones image used to sell the ads in between the filler called news now days either.

        Those coffins are real, not to be disrespected by curiosity seekers. As hard as it is to understand a whole lot