70th Anniversary of D-Day

[Norgy]

Jeez, maybe it's time to stop wheeling the poor queen out for public events. 

She's checking her Twitter feed.

#Putinsmells

[MadImmortalMan]

My grandpa. He spent the war tromping across the Alpine and cisalpine mountains with no boots on. He finally got a purple heart because his toes fell off from frostbite.

But he still served until there was no need.


See...My family is one of railroad riders. Bums. We hitched. Grandpa had been to Chicago and San Antonio a dozen times before he told us about his crazy exploits. No US Army would take him right now.

But those guys won. My grandfather charged a German bunker at Anzio and won a star pushing a grenade through a hole.


He never told me anything about the war until I bought an Anzio playset and he disappointed me with the news that he was the guy on his knees.

I remember my grandfather mostly for this.

He picked up a crawling guy and with tears in his eyes said this was me.


This was me.

Crawling.

[Norgy]

The fighting in Italy doesn't nearly get the credit it should get. Monte Cassino and Anzio cost a lot.

[Syt]

In Garth Ennis' War Stories anthology he pays due credit to the tough guys in Italy who some at the time considered to be "D-Day Dodgers".

[The Brain]

Lovely climate, great food and hot women. Italy must have been tough.

[jimmy olsen]

Lovely climate, great food and hot women. Italy must have been tough.

I'm sure being pinned down in a marsh while under a hail of German shells was lovely.

[The Brain]

Lovely climate, great food and hot women. Italy must have been tough.

I'm sure being pinned down in a marsh while under a hail of German shells was lovely.

Freak.

[Norgy]

Lovely climate, great food and hot women. Italy must have been tough.

Next time you enjoy your pasta, make sure someone drives you forward against deeply entrenched enemies up a hill.

[Warspite]

I heard a lot of time was spent in a casino on the Italian front.

[Norgy]

They always upped the monte.

[Syt]

Was it the full monte?