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| TACK Member Since: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Essex Posts: 1045  
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6th Jun 2013 5:25am |
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| NoDo$h Member Since: 18 Aug 2007 Location: Buried in deer guts in Dorset Posts: 972 
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Well said that man.
 
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6th Jun 2013 6:33am |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471  
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We will remember them.
Steve.
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6th Jun 2013 7:11am |
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| duckworthparts Site Sponsor Member Since: 30 Jun 2011 Location: Market Rasen Posts: 631
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6th Jun 2013 8:12am |
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| Lou Sparts Member Since: 15 Apr 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 1501 
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"THEY GAVE THEIR TOMORROWS"
By Lois Daley Laycock Would he ever come back ? Was on the soldier's mind Determined to defend his country And destroy the enemy lines He gazed at the angry waters As he sailed across the sea Knowing his destination Was the shore of Normandy He tried not to show The fear he felt inside Now he faced the enemy There was no place to hide He walked through the carnage A sight he will never forget The cries, the moans And the stench of death No time to mourn his fallen comrades No time to share their pain Only time to witness courage Over and over again Brave comrades gave their "Tomorrows" That we have our "Todays" So let the poppies bloom forever On their silent graves ---1996-- 2005 Td5 90 XS Steve |
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6th Jun 2013 10:13am |
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| iPints Member Since: 15 Jun 2012 Location: SC Posts: 294  
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They gave so much and asked so little. We will never forget their sacrifice. I am, personally, humbled by their bravery. |
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6th Jun 2013 10:30am |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189 
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@lousparks
Says it all. Thanks and respect to all our service personnel past and present. BM52 |
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6th Jun 2013 10:43am |
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| walfy Member Since: 29 Aug 2007 Location: Frome Posts: 2661
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I was very lucky to be able to visit the war graves on the 50th anniversary many years ago. Had the honour of walking about 15' behind the queen when she visited the cemetary. But thats another story.
Met a few heros, after a chat with them it became very apparent the losses they suffered. 1 bloke said his Battalion marched up 1 valley in the morning to close in with the enemy (roughly 600 blokes) and less than a dozen returned that night. I couldn't contemplate losing the whole Regiment I served in, in 1 day. We cannot imagine the pain and suffering they went through so that we today can have our freedom. Hero's every last 1 of them. I will not forget 110 D250 SE HT
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6th Jun 2013 12:00pm |
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| ginjez Member Since: 18 Sep 2011 Location: huddersfield Posts: 1763 
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D- Day has always been of special interest to me as I share it with my birthday ( apart from not being born in 1944).
I have visited all of the beeches and many of the cemetaries dotted around Normandy and one can't help being moved by the events of that horrific day. To see so many headstones all bearing the same date is very humbling. I often think every child should be taken to Normandy to see what harrowing events took place such a short time ago with some still being in their teens. It puts into perspective what we find so easy to moan about today. We owe everything to our forces who set off to advance on to Berlin that day to complete their mission almost a year later on May 8th 1945, VE day ( my wife's bithday) |
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6th Jun 2013 9:25pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6093 
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6th Jun 2013 9:50pm |
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| Birdy Member Since: 07 Oct 2011 Location: CĂ´te d'Azur Posts: 867  
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“We cannot imagine the pain and suffering they went through”
It’s absolutely BEYOND imagination: my father retained all his faculties until his death - i.e. no dementia, no confusion - could remember everything about the embarkment, everything that happened once he hit the beach (his unit got off pretty unscathed, it was a week later at Villers-Bocage that they were decimated), but simply couldn’t recollect how he got there. He said that he had no idea whether it was on a small ship, large ship, landing craft… could have been a bright pink ship for all he knew. The sheer terror of what was waiting for them must have wiped everything else out of their minds. He saw action on several fronts, spoke of things which are never reported (I once asked him about the Germans they’d captured on the way to Nijmegen, when they had to retreat: “What do you think we were gonna do wiv ’em, bring ’em home to meet your mother?”). Peter |
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7th Jun 2013 4:37pm |
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