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  1. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    Until my mother passed when I was 34, my father didn't share any of his disturbing stories. But I sure did hear about cold, wet feet. Also about sleeping in foxholes that they had to dig while laying down under fire.
  2. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    This is not the thread for your wannabe Fonda bull****.
  3. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    You can straight up GTFO with that revisionist history bull****. Stalin was more than happy to work with Hitler carving up Europe and signed a non-aggression pact. Then on June 22, 1941 Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. The Soviets would have fallen because they were broke. Without Lend-Lease...
  4. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    People love to find fault in historical figures and then make excuses for contemporary ones just as flawed because they have the right letter after their name.
  5. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    Thank you for your service.
  6. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    My father volunteered straight out of high school in 1943 and the Army decided he'd make a great engineer, so off to Maine he went. After the spring term of 44, the Army decided infantrymen were more needed than engineers so back to training and then off to Europe on a ship with hundreds of...
  7. JD08

    OT: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

    97 years old and still a badass. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-rice-d-day-anniversary-97-year-old-paratrooper-jump-2019-06-05/
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