Today is the 82nd anniversary of D Day, a day that changed the direction of WW 2.

The loss of lives given to free Europe and secure it from an unspeakable oppression can never be forgotten. These men were part of the greatest generation and very few are left. These men fill cemeteries in France which are filled with heroes. We can’t forget their sacrifices.

Uncle Jim

Staff Sargent 

101st Airborne Div

Normandy France

June 6, 1944

 

My Ma was told the glider he was in crashed on landing more than 2 miles from thier landing zone. 
All aboard were lost. 

May they Rest in Peace

My dad served in the navy. My uncle in the army air core. Both made it home, thank god. Both are gone now. I can't watch the cemetery scene in Saving Private Ryan with out tearing up.

My Grandfather John died in 2006 and he was a WW2 veteran. He was not a direct part of this specific event but later was deployed into Germany and helped liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.

Rarely talked about it even when asked.

My Dad was a combat engineer during the war and he would never want to talk about it.

He’d just walk away.

One time when my brothers and I asked our Ma all she said was “stop asking”

Never brought it up again.

Mike

Father in law was on the Normandy invasion.

Never talked about it, until a neighbor told him to watch Saving Private Ryan.

This was not a good thing as it brought back suppressed memories of it, I'd never seen him cry until then.

My father was a plank holder on the Missouri and was there for the Japanese signing.

Family legend was that he played the drum roll before it, he was in the band on board and was a drummer and also sang too in the band.

We have of picture of him singing in front of the band on the fantail.

He never talked about his time there too.