World War II veterans pay respects at US cemetery in Normandy 

Me too brother as a american Born Bela Russian nothing but respect to our US allies, all involved sacrificed so much so we can live like we live today

Nice of you - but the Americans did nothing compared with the Russians and the USSR.

@@peace-now Hi, frankly speaking, Russia (Soviet Union) sacrificed many lives for victory. But US was engaged in struggle against Empire of Japan. Amirican success in the Pacific war theater helped USSR, secured our back. Also US helped USSR with wide range of supplies.

@@ilyagritsenko1232 I completely agree with everything you say here. The US struggle against Japan was very important and in some cases risky for them, as in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Coral Sea. The US also helped deliver crucial supplies to the USSR, which helped the Red Army defeat the Germans. Also, Poland, India, New Zealand and France created a diversion in Italy, which made the D Day operation very easy. It should also be pointed out that the invasion was very late and should have been done in 1942 when Stalin wanted it.

@@peace-now many nations took in the battle against nazism; China, Thai guerrillas, Serbian Chetniks, guerrillas and resistance movement across Europe and Asia. Many people across the world did what they could do.

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cookie_ playz I cant really decide if David Muir or Tom Brokaw had a better report here from Normandy?

​@@hollypietrzak5214you're focusing on something that is irrelevant

they all nazis living in America

Saved the world? Had Chamberlain not declared war on the Germans, things would have fizzled out, as they usually do. There would have been no atom bombs on Japan, no Holocaust, no attacks on the Soviet, no 55 million people killed. Thank God there are no Chamberlains around now.

@@peace-now you wouldn't know the truth if it took a shit in your lap

Robert Richardson no Robert you must look past what you have learned in schooling, the Germans went to war with Russia because they were a communist threat . As for the Poland invasion I blame that on the Versailles treaty

Your grandfather is a hero as are all alive and passed. Tell him thank you from an old Texas gal. God bless him

My great uncle was there, I wish I had known so I could have gone with!

I’ve warned Mummy that I’m going to Normandy next year and she said “Why would you want to do that?!” I wasn’t pleased how she couldn’t except

Sorry for your lose

aikighost respect to you and your family , my grandfather who was in the 101st airborne best known as the screaming eagles 🦅 landed in Normandy as well broke his ankle when he landed fought on the beaches blown out of a fox hole and ended up in the same military hospital as his brother ...

RIP Never forgotten .

hey might be coincidence but my last name is simmons, and my fathers side(simmons side) has a very long military history.

Huh? They were 18 year olds who came in when victory was assured, and fought an easy war in sun shiny France with wine, woman and song. From the US perspective, the brave guys fought in Guadalcanal and on the USS Lexington.

@@peace-now huh? nice delusion of grandeur you think the US/Canada/British troops had on D Day. they may have came in as 18 year old kids, but those who made it out from D Day left those shores as battle hardened warriors. you tell me what you think of yourself when you have a line of MG42s in strategically placed Nazi bunkers faced your way in a foreign area while leaving a boat in the sea during a world war. you would think victory is assured? you aren't thinking victory is assured, you're thinking how the fuck do i get the hell out of here or how the fuck do we press on. your easy dismissal of how brave the folks who were on the offensive in normandy is disillusioned. they came in that fight as kids on a mission, and they made it out as battle hardened warriors forever remembered in the history of the world.

@@slowmanEF D Day heroes at work. They called the Germans "spies". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XOKEebktVco.html

@@slowmanEF And remember mortar rounds raining the beach heavy artillery firing

ImZeroSHD fuck you nazi

@@TheNobleExotic Oh. And are you a racist amerikan white police man who hates blacks? Becouse stereotypes. Not all Germans were part of NSDAP. Search Erwin Rommel for starters

What about the sailors? Germans are WW2 soldiers also. Do you thank them too?

SugarTomAppleRoger Germany started WW2 but somewhat with respect because many didn’t want to fight and were forced to

@@peace-now can you shut up

@@peace-now stop being so butthurt

@@peace-now No, I do not "thank" the soldiers of Germany because they were ideologically wrong, but I do respect all soldiers who fought and died for their country.

My grandmother is taking me to Normandy for the 80th anniversary in 2024. I’m dreading it

Yes God Bless them All n my Black Brothers tht fought along side of everyone else n came home n still was mistreated as tho they never serve for Justice n Liberty for all ,I can imagine how they felt ,but it was always said alot of them stayed in Europe becuz they were treated better over there ,than comin bck here bein second class citizens n bein mistreated n still looked down on

Ned, "Amen" my friend

@@alunhughes2632 "Amen"

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The other side of it is the men and women in their 70’s and older, who go back to concentration camps to have their Bar/Bat Mitzvah, because they ‘came of age’ during the Holocaust but couldn’t have the ceremony. They are almost always asked, ‘how can you come back here, where your family was murdered?’ They always answer, ‘because this was the last place where my family was together, and i can feel them here.’