67 years

[dutchy kilted]

Went to a parade last weekend where the guest of honor was a paratrooper from the American 101st Airborne Division who parachuted into Normandy. I cannot imagine what courage that took.

Incidentally, the local minor-league baseball team, the Lancaster Barnstormers is having a tribute to Dick Winters and the rest of the "Band of Brothers" tonight with some of the veterans making an appearance. (Dick Winters lived locally the last few years of his life.) Very appropriate.

[Burly Brute]

My grandfather was anti-aircraft stationed in Germany. I have the utmost respect for him and the work he has done all his life, now 90 years old and still living on his own (quite capable I may add).

What a poor Tennessee farm boy, raised among 12 other brothers and sisters can do is amazing.

I was watching a documentary the other day, and they were showing footage of the beach today, and even amidst the laughter and people playing on the beach it still carries that eerie feeling of just intense loss (lives), but intense victory.

[BoldHighlander]

[BoldHighlander]

Went to a parade last weekend where the guest of honor was a paratrooper from the American 101st Airborne Division who parachuted into Normandy. I cannot imagine what courage that took.

Incidentally, the local minor-league baseball team, the Lancaster Barnstormers is having a tribute to Dick Winters and the rest of the "Band of Brothers" tonight with some of the veterans making an appearance. (Dick Winters lived locally the last few years of his life.) Very appropriate.

I recall while in Jr. High, meeting my friends father, who was one of the pathfinders with the 82nd Airborne on Normandy ... he was still one scary & tough looking son'uva gun even in the 1970's.

Another local vet (of both WWI & WII) I was friendly with back in the early 80's, gave me a German bayonet & scabbard he took off a dead German at Omaha Beach. I still have it.

It has always been a great pleasure & honour to meet those who fought evil, I still stand in awe of them.