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From my friend Mari

Hi Marion,

Just a note to say hi and acknowledge all your "boys" on your end on this special day.

Love, Mari

Essayons

297th Combat Engineers WWII

"We clear the way!"

Ardennes • Central Europe • Normandy • Northern France • The Rhineland

From my friend Mari

 

Hi Marion,

Just a note to say hi and acknowledge all your "boys" on your end on this special day.

Love, Mari

 

Essayons

297th Combat Engineers WWII

"We clear the way!"

Ardennes • Central Europe • Normandy • Northern France • The Rhineland

I WAS GLAD TO SEE ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE "OTHER D-DAYS" OF WWII.

DON'T FORGET THE SICILY D-DAY, 10 JULY43. SEE ARTICLES ON THIS WEBSITE BY COLONEL STANLEY DZIUBAN ABOUT THE 39TH COMBAT ENGINEERS.

Every June 6th my Dad would wait till we were all at the kitchen table for breakfast and intone: "D-Day the 6th of June". It was truly his prayer for those who'd been there.

Now I say it out loud every June 6th, but also on Sept 9th for Salerno, Jan 21 for Anzio, and Aug 15th for Southern France. As M1 said - there were dozens of "D Days" in WWII.

Many men lost there lives on those days, many men suffered.

 

ALL of them must be remembered & honored!

 

m2

My father used to say that the only person that seemed to remember D-Day was Charles Schulz. Every year in his comic strip "Peanuts", he would mention the event.

I will say that My local newspaper, which is usually only good for housebreaking puppies and lining bird cages, actually had a nice article about a local man that took part in the invasion. I'm glad to see they took the space on the front page to commemorate the day.

God bless all of you that insured that I never had to learn German or live under a dictator.

Sent to me by Al Panebianco, 45th Inf Div:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation.

“My Fellow Americans:

“Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome , I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

“And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

“Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

“They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

“They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

“For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

“Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

“And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

“Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

“Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

“And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

“And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

“With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

“Thy will be done, Almighty God.

“Amen.â€

One comment on all this rhetoric,I see here on D-Day.There but for the Grace of God-Go I.

Be thankful you made it home from this terrible conflict.By the way anyone know what outfit

got the most 3 day passes in WW2. A prayer in remberance of all invasions and those who gave all,would be appropiate.

Comrade In Arms

Jim H-87th-Inf-Div.

One comment on all this rhetoric,I see here on D-Day.There but for the Grace of God-Go I.

Be thankful you made it home from this terrible conflict.By the way anyone know what outfit

got the most 3 day passes in WW2. A prayer in remberance of all invasions and those who gave all,would be appropiate.

Comrade In Arms

Jim H-87th-Inf-Div.

AMEN

Roque Riojas

1st Bn. 135th, 34th Divn.

Another Comrade

Well thanks to SonofaMP, I was reading the unclassified documents on the invasion of Sicily. Husky Operations Plan Sicily

http://www.american-divisions.com/doc.asp?...mp;pagenumber=1

Here's to THAT D-Day and all the preparation, man power, perserverance, determination, loss of life, fortitude, and everything it takes to push a venture this great. To all who were there.

Hello at all,

I just returned from my stay in Normandy.

I spent three wonderful days.

Encounter people formidable.

I was very moved by my meeting with several véterans.

I put some pictures to make you to wait.

Because I made more than 600 photos and I want to make a very nice ablum for you !

And you explain my weekend while details. my meeting with MOOSE was fantastic , It is brilliant my sons liked him !

They have that talk about him & co all evening !

PS:I to hurry up to make my promised album

VEE

Vee, looks like you had a marvelous time with Moose in Normandy. Bravo! Love the photo of you in the foxhole. You look like a natural with the Garand. And Moose was having a good ol' time with the beer. Oh Moose!

Beautiful photographs. Your son looks like he was very proud to have his picture taken with all the vets of past and present, and the reenactors.

Thanks for sharing all that. So happy you two finally got to meet, and at such an historic and sacred place.