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Grammy23

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10. Yes, you are right. Some of the warriors do get it.

Reply to Botany (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 6, 2017, 11:46 AM

Jun 2017

Unfortunately, as they fade away into the sunset of life, they are replaced by other leaders who haven't gotten the message of what we lose by spending our blood and treasure on endless war. And those who have never been in battle, never faced their own mortality, never crouched in a foxhole, never buried their fellow soldiers are the deciders who get us up to our eyeballs in another conflict. Too much time and money spent on the war machine. Not enough time invested in finding peaceful co-existence. 😢

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73 years ago today June 6th 1944 [View all] Botany Jun 2017 OP

K & R... dhill926 Jun 2017 #1

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They were the best Botany Jun 2017 #3

K&R HAB911 Jun 2017 #4

It was such an amazing and heroic day in history! MoonRiver Jun 2017 #5

My high school track coach was at Omaha beach, first wave. CanonRay Jun 2017 #6

My husband and I visited the American cemetery in Normandy two years ago. Grammy23 Jun 2017 #7

Ike learned the lesson. Botany Jun 2017 #9

Yes, you are right. Some of the warriors do get it. Grammy23 Jun 2017 #10

THIS volstork Jun 2017 #16

Eisenhower saw war first hand, many of those today have no concept.... George II Jun 2017 #22

Thank you for the extended quote. Delmette2.0 Jun 2017 #15

Defense contractors and war hawks learned a different lesson IronLionZion Jun 2017 #17

I wish our Party would bluecollar2 Jun 2017 #23

6.6.44. The beginning of the end of the Hitler regime. oasis Jun 2017 #8

I always miss my dad and uncles on days like this nini Jun 2017 #11

Remembering some brave heroes today!! hamsterjill Jun 2017 #12

The Greatest Generation during their most brave hours. Too many never FailureToCommunicate Jun 2017 #13

True heroes in every sense. volstork Jun 2017 #14

My dad was there with Patton a month later steve2470 Jun 2017 #18

My mother was a girl in France and my grandfather, a police captain, lovemydogs Jun 2017 #19

D-Day mfr4 Jun 2017 #20

My dad was there. Duppers Jun 2017 #21

My Grandfather (mother's father) was in Burma bluecollar2 Jun 2017 #24

Thank you Donkees Jun 2017 #25

My father went ashore on Day 6. greatauntoftriplets Jun 2017 #26

My dad was still in England, shipped over France after the invasion DFW Jun 2017 #27