These brave men fought, bled and died to preserve what this administration is hell-bent on destroying. I am glad my father, who served under Patton ETO, did not live to see the current state of America.
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Their courage brings me to tears just looking at the photos. I am ashamed of my country right now. It would have broken my father's heart.
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My father, having done good temp job helping run prison camp in Sicily, was offered cushy "permanent" job there til end of war. No,he said, wanted to go on to England w/his tank unit & prepare for invasion of France & he did that & drove his tank onto Omaha Beach on June 7.
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Inspiring to remember that of 130 million Americans in 1941, 16 million would put on a uniform; sad and haunting to think about how many of these young men wouldn't survive that fateful day.
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So young. Thrown into a world war. They held and never broke. These were ordinary young Americans in extraordinary circumstances. THIS is who we are.
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My brother, Marvin E. Hooper was in that group; came home with thanks signed by President Harry Truman, Bronze Star, Purple Heart w/Oak Leaf Cluster and Certificate of Merit.
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Very good book by Robin Pearce entitled: "Seven Months to D-day: An American Regiment in Dorset"https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Months-D-day-American-Regiment/dp/1874336849 …
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We may need them here in the US to save our democracy.
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I see on the far right that there's a black soldier in this photo. But the U.S. military was racially segregated in 1944. It would be interesting to know then how a black soldier got into this photograph. Does anyone have an explanation for it?
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Some black troops were truck drivers. Maybe this guy?
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Thanks. That's a good speculation. Probably was that, or something like that.
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Always a shock to be reminded World War Two was fought in color.
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Young. Handsome. Heroes. Our saviors.
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Who would think that Americans would have fight Nazis on our own soil these days? Wow.
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My dad landed at Omaha Beach. At 93, he has moderate dementia but can still tell you exactly what he did that day.pic.twitter.com/NDM16vALE1
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RAF pilots pounded German garrisons in Le Havre home to my beloved Mother who became shell shocked and always feared fireworks on the 4th July my Family fought for Le General as he took refuge in London taken POW and shot by the Jerries I visit Normandy every year and well uppic.twitter.com/LX5U3vXDDx
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By 1944 the Army couldn't find enough infantrymen so draft boards started taking people like my dad. He was 27, married with 3 kids & drafted. He was an old man in a young man's war as the typical soldier was around 19.
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