June 6th- D Day

[dbair1967]

 

[Creeper]

a huge sacrifice of men. I don't think the country would have the stomach for such an endeavor today.

 

[Doomsday]

We pulled their lousy fat out of the fire yet again with the blood sweat and tears of our boys and their families. It's why to this day I still hate the French and their puke country. We should have let Hitler swallow the whole fuckin thing up.

 

[Dodger12]

The Greatest Generation ever. These men saved the world, literally.

 

[yimyammer]

The Greatest Generation ever. These men saved the world, literally.

and then had the humility to never even talk about it.

Example:

(not American but I still consider part of that generation):

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US Air Force bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl.

Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. One of her trainers was a former cat burglar, who taught her how to climb walls and sneak around without leaving a trace. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather.

Her mission was dangerous. Years later, Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a silly country girl, chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests, finding her own food.

Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once, when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her, she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages, helping Allied bombers find German targets.

After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand, where she raised four children. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. In 2014, on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the French government honored her with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace....

 

[Doomsday]

and then had the humility to never even talk about it.

Example:

Dude I posted about her and the condo building in my hometown named for her!

 

[dbair1967]

a huge sacrifice of men. I don't think the country would have the stomach for such an endeavor today.

nope...schools produce anti-American pussy morons who sit around, smoke weed and waste their day playing video games

 

[Creeper]

and then had the humility to never even talk about it.

Example:

My dad served in the Army and was sent to Saipan in the Pacific. He never talked about his experiences there. He never volunteered any memories of those days when he was fighting the Japanese. The only remnant of it he brought back as a hatred of beaches and sand.