69 Years Ago Today

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bayonetbrant

June 06, 2013, 05:25:11 AM
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Martok

#1
June 06, 2013, 05:49:24 AM
Wow, it's hard to believe D-Day was that long ago. 

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Staggerwing

#2
June 06, 2013, 06:20:50 AM
Ouch! When I first started reading about WW2 as a kid it had only been about 26 years ago that D-Day took place.

I must be officially old...  :(
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TheCommandTent

#3
June 06, 2013, 07:21:12 AM
May we never forget the courage and sacrifice of that generation.
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LongBlade

#4
June 06, 2013, 08:28:43 AM
Agreed. Thanks for posting that, Brant.
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June 06, 2013, 11:59:12 AM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on June 06, 2013, 07:21:12 AM
May we never forget the courage and sacrifice of that generation.

One of few things that Tom Brokaw has said that I can agree with...they were the greatest generation!
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#6
June 06, 2013, 12:39:39 PM
Agreed. It doesn't feel like so long ago...it almost felt kinda recent growing up.
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June 06, 2013, 02:23:50 PM
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June 06, 2013, 04:36:34 PM
Since this is worth commemorating, and in a Grog honour to all those who participated, lets nominate our favourite D-Day books, films and games.

I'll kick off with GMT's 'Normandy '44' which I'll be playing this weekend.

For the film, I guess it has to be 'Longest day'

There a lots of books, but I'll nominate 'Decision in Normandy' by Carlo D'este.
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bayonetbrant

#9
June 06, 2013, 04:55:57 PM
I'm making Bayonet Jr watch The Longest Day tonight :)
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

TheCommandTent

#10
June 06, 2013, 05:08:05 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2013, 04:55:57 PM
I'm making Bayonet Jr watch The Longest Day tonight :)

Great movie.  Not sure if I will watch The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers tonight.
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Martok

#11
June 06, 2013, 08:23:20 PM
It's Saving Private Ryan for me. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

bayonetbrant

#12
June 07, 2013, 11:30:29 AM
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Electric_Strawberry

#13
June 11, 2013, 10:48:12 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2013, 05:25:11 AM


When I bought Avalon Hill's "D-Day" back around 1962 or so, that NY Times front page was the predominate box art.  I'll always remember that.

bayonetbrant

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June 12, 2013, 05:54:54 AM
heya Strawberry - welcome back!
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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