To my father, who came ashore at Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 and who lived with that fact until the day he died. He and his generation were the reason I followed him into uniform and served for almost 30 years. RIP Dad and for you and you brethren of the Greatest Generation: May God Bless and Keep you Always, and may you never be forgotten.
My mother was born in 1918 and my father was born in 1919. Neither one served in the military, but they were part of the greatest generation as were all Americans were who lived during that time.❤❤❤
To my dad who fought in Northern Africa and Sicily in WWII who never liked to talk about what he saw or who he killed. Who lived to 93. My son now has his medals from the war and treasures them.
For my father RN 1940-1954 and his brothers also RN. My father was off shore during d-day, he never talked about his experience except with his friends also veterans. My father died in 1992 from MND. Sgt William Forester RAF KIA 1943.
For my Father who was DDay+15, 103rd Timberwolves. Purple Heart Recipient, it wasn’t until after he passed in 95, I learned he spent 100 days in a Field Hospital in Belgium. I knew he had been shot, he never talked about the convalescence.
My uncle dragged the “big” gun from Normandy to Berlin. Patton had them go through one of the first camps to be librated. He had a mental collapse and developed a pronounced speech impairment.
Though we saw then as enemies they were humans just like us following orders not all were pure evil not all were monsters we fought ourselves we may never got too live the experience the horrors of ww2 but the men who did saw and did things to survive many are now long gone all we have is interviews and footage may they finally now rest in peace no more nightmares of the old war.
When I go to bowling tournaments in Pa, I pass by the grave site of Major Richard "Dick" Winters. They put up a huge sign to show his burial place. They had a guard there for a while to monitor the traffic and keep idiots from doing something stupid like taking flowers or the whole head stone (don't laugh, someone will try it).
This piece always brings fresh tears to my eyes; thus is the point of a requiem, and yet... Both sides of my family have veterans who have since left us. My father's uncles, my mother's father -- all fought in WW2. My uncles, Steven, Gary, Fritz -- all in Desert Storm. My parents are both "unblooded" ReForGer veterans of the Cold War. I have never had to actively make the sacrifices they all did for the United States -- or the Free World -- I have only played at it as a reenactor of the American Civil War. I still cannot watch "Band of Brothers" or visit a veterans' memorial like The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, or the Vietnam Wall, without tears threatening and a breath catching in my throat. Sadly, I am a dying breed. Too many HATE our soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen. Our own government included. I wish it were the opposite. May this piece of music live on for a long time to come. May the dead rest... "whilst poppies grow in Flanders' fields, in Flanders' fields."
Sorry, I don't hate our country, but I do hate our government. When our government has been turned against us, as it has under Obama and now Biden, it deserves to be hated. Screw all Leftists, who prosecute anti-American agendas, and all RINOs, who stand by picking their noses.
Could have sworn I saw this live on Newsround in 1986. Turns out it was just 21 minutes before Newsround came on air. Funny how your memory plays tricks on you.
My father landed on Normandy and fought thru France, Holland, and Belgium into the Ardennes and Battle of the Bulge. He received the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He never talked about the war while I was growing up. When I joined the Navy, he then would talk to me, but not my siblings. This is a beautiful song but I couldn't understand a word she sang. Great voice, though.
And to think there's a potential US presidential candidate, who AS president, SAID, these soldiers were LOSERS, WHAT WAS IN IT FOR THEM! NEVER AGAIN will such a TRAITOR soil this country's White House, with his evil and cowardly presence!
Have you got anymore footage of the news from this date? I'm mainly after the news story about the cancelled National Health Service Lottery because only part of it is in this video.
FOREVER Peace to ALL the fallen soldiers of the Allied and Axis, many young lives of both sides were CUT short by the war, if these young men could choose, they wouldn't want to go to war, but CIRCUMSTANCES force them to fulfill their duty
Beautiful voice, but her diction was such that it was difficult to understand the lyrics- which is a shame, because the words pay tribute to a generation of true heroes.
To the men and women from WW II who taught a young boy lessons of life! The Veterans from W. A.& R. Ouellette Post 8502 Westport, Mass. and their wives! I am eternally grateful to you all and thankful everyday for being a part of my life! Always missed and loved and never forgotten!!!!!! Thank you God for putting them in my life! Amen
