80 years ago today.....Peace!

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During WWII about 16 million of our citizens served in uniform and millions more worked towards victory...it was reported today that there are about 60,000 veterans of the war still alive.

Got bless the veterans of our military, as well as those of our allies who risked and frequently gave their lives in the face of the greatest evil in the history of the planet.

Visit this documentary....in honor of those who gave all...

Hallowed Grounds

Visit 22 of America's overseas military cemeteries.

www.pbs.org

 

[Dawg]

 

[bdtex]

During WWII about 16 million of our citizens served in uniform and millions more worked towards victory...it was reported today that there are about 60,000 veterans of the war still alive.

Got bless the veterans of our military, as well as those of our allies who risked and frequently gave their lives in the face of the greatest evil in the history of the planet.

Visit this documentary....in honor of those who gave all...

Hallowed Grounds

Visit 22 of America's overseas military cemeteries.

www.pbs.org

Think about it. An 18 year old in 1945 would be 97 or 98 right now. In a few years they'll all be gone.

 

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During WWII about 16 million of our citizens served in uniform and millions more worked towards victory...it was reported today that there are about 60,000 veterans of the war still alive.

Got bless the veterans of our military, as well as those of our allies who risked and frequently gave their lives in the face of the greatest evil in the history of the planet.

Visit this documentary....in honor of those who gave all...

Hallowed Grounds

Visit 22 of America's overseas military cemeteries.

www.pbs.org

The Greatest Generation!

 

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Think about it. An 18 year old in 1945 would be 97 or 98 right now. In a few years they'll all be gone.

You're right bdtex. We have the opportunity to actually meet heroes when it will shortly be written about them in the history books.

My heart sank for a moment there...

 

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During WWII about 16 million of our citizens served in uniform and millions more worked towards victory...it was reported today that there are about 60,000 veterans of the war still alive.

Got bless the veterans of our military, as well as those of our allies who risked and frequently gave their lives in the face of the greatest evil in the history of the planet.

Visit this documentary....in honor of those who gave all...

Hallowed Grounds

Visit 22 of America's overseas military cemeteries.

www.pbs.org

I haven't watched the documentary yet, but will. And I feel that watching it it won't change the utmost respect I have for those brave men and women that gave their lives for our freedom.

 

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I haven't watched the documentary yet, but will. And I feel that watching it it won't change the utmost respect I have for those brave men and women that gave their lives for our freedom.

No, but it will touch your heart to see how the people of other nations care for these places.

 

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During WWII about 16 million of our citizens served in uniform and millions more worked towards victory...it was reported today that there are about 60,000 veterans of the war still alive.

Got bless the veterans of our military, as well as those of our allies who risked and frequently gave their lives in the face of the greatest evil in the history of the planet.

Visit this documentary....in honor of those who gave all...

Hallowed Grounds

Visit 22 of America's overseas military cemeteries.

www.pbs.org

upvoted. nice post.

and the lesson here is: "Don't fight a war unless you're committed to seeing it through, and forcing regime change on despots"

 

[Dawg]

Think about it. An 18 year old in 1945 would be 97 or 98 right now. In a few years they'll all be gone.

I read years back 1,800 WWII Veterans died daily.......
Dad passed at 99 in 2023, a D-Day Vet

At Vet Coffee's and at the VA there are few if any WWII Vets present now

 

[Dawg]

upvoted. nice post.

and the lesson here is: "Don't fight a war unless you're committed to seeing it through, and forcing regime change on despots"

That hasn't happened since WWII

 

[EatTheRich]

upvoted. nice post.

and the lesson here is: "Don't fight a war unless you're committed to seeing it through, and forcing regime change on despots"

I would say that the lesson is “war is hell” and “imperialist war leads to more war.” The barbaric incinerations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the threatened Soviet invasion of Japan (and attack on its northern colonies) brought that empire to submission (but left the emperor in place to defend the conservative regime preferred by imperialism), but the U.S. was immediately at war with worker and peasant armies from Italy to Greece and from China to Korea. It was only the troops’ massive demobilization rallies that prevented the U.S. directly taking over right where Germany and Japan left off. As it was it took the Nixon-McCarthy witch hunt in the U.S. and a succession of Stalinist betrayals of revolution (e.g., in Greece) before the U.S. was willing to go back on the offensive with the assault on Korea.