Some gave all...

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:19 am

When I was 20, I didn't have a care in the world...but there once was a time when boys became men and gave up their lives. Remember them.

Omaha beach as seen from a Higgins boat, June 6, 1944.

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:30 am

Marines on Guadalcanal.

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:37 am

The Arizona.

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon May 27, 2002 4:31 am

Headed for Yalu, November 1950-Korea.

An F4U-4 shot down by ground fire, somewhere in North Korea.

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Postby **judge jb** » Mon May 27, 2002 8:33 am

good post Wingman.... my long time Hero, my dad was wounded on Omaha Beach during the first wave... like thosands of others he never made it to the beach on foot... a young man fighting for our future... the bullet was removed some 40 years later during heart surgery... like all other war heros, he chose to stay silent..
i like to get out Tom Brokaws book and scan on holidays like this..

judge jb

Doc & Nash · Postby **Doc & Nash** » Mon May 27, 2002 8:39 am

Not to take away from the service men and women who have fought for this country in the past but we should also remember our forces who are currently overseas proctecting our freedom from terror.

walt333ms · Postby **walt333ms** » Mon May 27, 2002 8:52 am

thanks for the post and the pics....

puts a lot of our small problems in the correct prerspective.....

my dad landed D-DAY on Omaha Beach about 10:00 pm the night of the invasion....LST was hit by a bomb from one of the only two German planes left in the sector...bomb did not explode....went thru the upper deck and stoped inside a douce and half 21/2 truck...
(das was on the upper deck less than 30 feet)

guess we all have many stories to be thankful for,,,,

take care
walt and sam

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon May 27, 2002 1:27 pm

Yes, there are countless others to thank, I just ran out of time to find pics: Vietnam, Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan...the list goes on and on. And let's not forget WWI and the ones before. Thanks to all of those who died for our freedom and the ones who didn't die, but gave up their freedom to save ours.

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go24 · Postby **go24** » Mon May 27, 2002 2:41 pm

There's an equally honorable thing we can do today-- live a moral life.

Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14.34

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon May 27, 2002 7:07 pm

Good point, go24. There is a man in my church, Mr. Junior Turberville. He was an 82nd Airborne paratrooper. He got dropped out of a C-47 the night before D-Day. I thanked him a while back for what he did for us. I told him I felt like I hadn't given to my country since I'd never been in the military. He thanked me for taking time with the younger boys in my church. That meant alot to me, for a "bootheels and bayonets" 82nd Airborne man to thank me for something I'd never considered as worthy as what he'd done. There is a war going on not visible to the naked eye. It takes the sword of truth to fight that one.

Wingman
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