d day 6th june

[steve56]

celebrations galore.

[crofter]

yeah not sure how much celebration is going on steve56, all I will say is that the human cost and suffering probably has no place for a porn forum but to those guys and normal folks, who did not come out the other side looking quite so rosy we should pause to think of the sacrifices that were made on that awful, murderous day, if ever so many modern day soldiers have been sent to slaughter that was it, but it was done for a cause and that seems to be what we celebrate ... go figure.

[steve56]

i agree,but i thought vera lynn would turn up somehow,or the beverly sisters.

[mart]

One of my cousins is married to a guy who was a medic who went there on D-Day 2. He doesn't talk about it.

Mart

[Fastbike]

I am not a military historian , but I believe the worst casualies suffered by Britiish arms was the first day of the Battle of the Somme 1916 .
Back after quick search .
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWsomme.htm
Yes , and this war was fought to keep Imperial Germany away from the British Empire , rather than to rescue Europe and the world from a bunch of racist gangsters .
I have to say that I found the sight of those miltary vehicle enthusiasts jollying along in sunshine rather stomach turning . The veterans clearly saw it as a remembrance , not a celebration .

[IdolDroog]

I think you are correct fastbike. My grandfather fought in the somme when he was 17 and a bomb exploded near him rendering with a claw-type right hand for the rest of his life and he died well into his 90s. Imagine closing your hand up to that the paws of your fingers make contact with the palm of your hand...for ever.

Its definitely not a topic i want degraded to the "celebrations galore" shit on this forum. Whilst ive spent the last 3 years (im 21 for those who dunno) worrying about the most irrelevant and trivial shit the generation two or three places before me were walking into hell and many didnt even live to this age, and purely due to random fortune or misfortune of when you are born.

Ive not got respect for ANYONE like i have for war heroes/survivors.

[Fastbike]

WWI was an apalling mincing machine . I remember my Mum telling me that women in her Mothers generation married amputees partially sighted or whatever , one of them said to her , what was left of your boyfriend/fiance when it came back you grabbed it and thought yourself lucky compared to those whose men were dead.