Posted by RBoots on June 06, 2015 at 20:29:27 from (173.241.113.102):
In Reply to: June 6, 1944 posted by JerryS on June 06, 2015 at 17:11:36:
My grandfather drove a landing craft there, a "duck" was it called? Unfortunately I never got to hear as many of his stories as I wanted as he died on my 12th birthday when he took me fishing. Somehow he survived driving that landing craft. I'm a younger man, and I think it's BS that younger people don't think about D-Day, most just don't care. I wish I would have heard more stories about it from him. I love nothing more than WW2 movies/documentaries, I search them out online, and I love to read books and articles about them. Always read the ones some of the guys here post. I was just thinking the other day that I haven't known any WW2 vets in a long time, so I looked it up. The figures I found said that of the 16 million US soldiers that served in WW2, only 885,000 or so are still alive, and we are losing almost 500 each day. It was stated that in 5 years there will only be around 85,000 left. This really weighs on me as once they are gone, so are their personal stories. Last WW2 vet I talked to told me a very interesting story about fighting in the Black Forest, which I believe he said he was in Germany. I also like WW1 stuff, but that stuff is even tougher to find. God Bless all the soldiers and remember those today that were there at D-Day.
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