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Started by Maladict, June 05, 2019, 08:03:02 AM

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Maladict

June 05, 2019, 08:03:02 AM
Lots of events coming up over the course of the next 15 months or so, might as well make a thread for it.

Maladict

#1
June 05, 2019, 08:03:08 AM

Today, of course, D-Day -1







Duque de Bragança

#2
June 05, 2019, 08:25:54 AM
Something special about Market-Garden commemorations in Batavian lands this year?

Yes, D-Day 75th anniversary. Pretty huge here, like 5 years ago for the 70th anniversary. Except it started yesterday.

Richard Hakluyt

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June 05, 2019, 08:50:01 AM
Some good anecdotes from people who were there :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48504300

Maladict

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June 05, 2019, 09:57:58 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 05, 2019, 08:25:54 AM
Something special about Market-Garden commemorations in Batavian lands this year?


Definitely, I intend to go and see a lot of it.

I was there 25 years ago when the veterans rolled into Nijmegen. First big city they entered, and they clearly weren't expecting thousands of people lining the streets. Not a dry eye to be seen.

The Larch

#5
June 05, 2019, 10:14:37 AM
Is that Mel Brooks in the 3rd picture? I know he's a WWII vet, but don't know if he was on D-Day...

Habbaku

#6
June 05, 2019, 10:18:48 AM
No, it's not Brooks. He was in the 78th ID according to Wikipedia, and that guy's wearing a 101st patch.
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derspiess

#7
June 05, 2019, 10:22:51 AM
Love the old Airborne vet wearing his polished jump boots.  I'm sure he's got some stories.
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Razgovory

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June 05, 2019, 04:50:14 PM
It's weird.  When I was a kid WW2 vets were very common.  Nearly everyone had someone in the family that fought in the war or otherwise contributed (though few talked much about it).  They were almost all retirees by then, but they were still quite visible.  I image everyone on this board had the same experience.  It's so weird that there are so few left, and that one day soon there will be nobody left.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Malthus

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June 05, 2019, 05:03:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 05, 2019, 04:50:14 PM
It's weird.  When I was a kid WW2 vets were very common.  Nearly everyone had someone in the family that fought in the war or otherwise contributed (though few talked much about it).  They were almost all retirees by then, but they were still quite visible.  I image everyone on this board had the same experience.  It's so weird that there are so few left, and that one day soon there will be nobody left.

It's exactly the same distance in time from the end of WW2 to now, and from the end of the American Civil War to the start of WW2! - 74 years.

(1865 + 74 = 1939; 1945 + 74 = 2019) 
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Barrister

#10
June 05, 2019, 05:03:42 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 05, 2019, 04:50:14 PM
It's weird.  When I was a kid WW2 vets were very common.  Nearly everyone had someone in the family that fought in the war or otherwise contributed (though few talked much about it).  They were almost all retirees by then, but they were still quite visible.  I image everyone on this board had the same experience.  It's so weird that there are so few left, and that one day soon there will be nobody left.

I also remember as a kid going to remembrance day ceremonies and there being some aged WWI vets present.  They're of course now long gone.
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Admiral Yi

#11
June 05, 2019, 05:05:36 PM
I didn't meet my first WWII vet until fairly recently, when I moved to Iowa from DC.

Eddie Teach

#12
June 05, 2019, 05:39:02 PM
You've lived in Iowa since at least 2003, right?
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Admiral Yi

#13
June 05, 2019, 05:43:41 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 05, 2019, 05:39:02 PM
You've lived in Iowa since at least 2003, right?

I've kind of lost track.

Razgovory

#14
June 05, 2019, 06:10:45 PM
I once read that big wars tend to occur after everyone from the last big war is dead.  Hopefully that's not true.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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