Sixty-three years ago today...
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Topic: Sixty-three years ago today...
Posted By: WGP guy2
Subject: Sixty-three years ago today...
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 8:13am
...the allies invaded occupied France. |
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Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 8:18am
I'll bet anything that nobody at my job will know what D-Day is. Just like they didn't know what the POW flag is.
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 8:20am
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TheSpookyKids87 wrote:Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 8:31am
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I have a history class tonight, and I doubt many of them would know, but my coworkers could fill you in on all the details of Paris Hilton's "struggle."
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 8:42am
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Who cares?
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Posted By: thebuickguy
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 9:05am
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um the free world being free cares
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 9:11am
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Ehhh... nothing was accomplished. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 9:23am
Ah yea, Hitler and Musollini wouldn't have wanted Canada anyway. |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 9:36am
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A good excuse to crank up Saving Private Ryan again...? ------------- 
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Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 9:40am
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great googly moogliez
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Posted By: Lone_Wolf
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 11:26am
Idiot. ------------- Push your limits hard enough, and you'll find you don't have any. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 11:30am
Irony. -------------
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 11:31am
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I understand that looking at it in a narrow scope, it seems like a huge earth-shattering event. However, I have an encyclopedia of battles here, everything dated back to the beginning of recorded time, and I cannot help but wonder if 100 or 500 years from now, D-Day will just be another page in a gigantic encyclopedia. |
Posted By: Lone_Wolf
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 11:46am
Give several reasons why. Or at the very least try to keep a lid on your pomposity. It really doesn't make you look cool. ------------- Push your limits hard enough, and you'll find you don't have any. |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 11:47am
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Whale, I'd like to see that book....Name? ISBN? But yeah, I'm not gonna dwell on the rather depressing fact that most people in this country probably have no idea of this. Instead, I'll focus on the value of the battle...Let's see...I'd say saving western Europe from fascism was probably an important thing that needed doing. Not to mention D-Day was the first step at finally stomping through the Third Reich and destroying the Nazi war machine before it caused more damage....Not real sure how you could argue that it wasn't important, except maybe in the grand scheme of human history, but even then, it was one of the most important battles of the biggest war in said history(unless we happen to top it eventually), so even then...it's uh...kinda a big deal... There is an argument as to the effectiveness of WWII though, in that we left Eastern Europe in the clutches of yet another despotic regime, which may have really been worse than Hitler's, for 50 years after the fact....but hey, at least we saved half of Europe, right? -------------  |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 11:52am
On the contrary, I was pointing out how you took his bait, without directly insulting you. But if you insist.. -------------
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Posted By: Dune
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 2:44pm
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Doesn't count, the El Duce wasn't even really in power in 1944. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 5:31pm
| That is an amazing photograph...I never saw that before... |
Posted By: impulse!
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 6:05pm
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Im going to watch some Band Of Brothers. Bought the DVD set about a week back. ------------- 
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 6:05pm
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I was going to go out and shoot my garand a little bit today for historical value but yardwork got it the way, now it looks like rain. I also dont feel like cleaning it. As for historical signifigance, I think D-day will definatly be in major history books for the next thousand year, providing we have history books and people to write them in 1000 years. It will at least be remembered for being the largest armada ever assembled, I dont see one topping it again soon. North Africa and Italy always take a back seat to D-day and the war in western europe, hopefully they'll get a little more mention. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 6:06pm
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Unless there's world peace. Which will not happen ------------- 
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