The Normandie Invasion was 70 years ago.
To commemorate it, a bunch of troops (as they do every year) jump out of airplanes and parachute onto the beach.
Check out this guy.
93 year old Jim Martin. If there’s ever a definition of badass or “hero”, this guy fits. Been checking a few stories and reports on him prior to the jump (homeboy was interviewed in front of his cabin in one clip CHOPPING WOOD) and he is so cool. Super alert and well spoken.
A lot of the nazi bunkers/pillboxes are still there… not maintained at all, unlit and stretch underground for a fair old while. Scared myself badly walking around them
check out all these nazi muppets in europe telling everyone to never forget.
We haven’t mate, that’s why people throw bricks at you when you visit London
A lot of the nazi bunkers/pillboxes are still there… not maintained at all, unlit and stretch underground for a fair old while. Scared myself badly walking around them
Wow. That sounds pretty intense.
Feel free to share any photos if you took any.
The church I go to is largely Japanese American (and older) and I know quite a few of the guys from the 442nd. I also know a number of folk who, during the war, were sent to various Japanese Internment Camps.
I don’t pester people about stuff like that, but on the rare times when they talk about it it is quite fascinating and commands respect.
check out all these nazi muppets in europe telling everyone to never forget.
We haven’t mate, that’s why people throw bricks at you when you visit London
You mean there’s like some some Nazi flipside commemoration of this or something? Like a “Remember the Alamo” type thing . . . for Nazi scumbags?
A lot of the nazi bunkers/pillboxes are still there… not maintained at all, unlit and stretch underground for a fair old while. Scared myself badly walking around them
check out all these nazi muppets in europe telling everyone to never forget.
We haven’t mate, that’s why people throw bricks at you when you visit London
Check out this dude too!
I just absolutely adore these old heroes.
My normal daily idols like Lemmy, Alice Cooper, and Dee Snider kind of pale in comparison when you put things into perspective (and that is in no way a diss to the aforementioned).
A lot of the nazi bunkers/pillboxes are still there… not maintained at all, unlit and stretch underground for a fair old while. Scared myself badly walking around them
I wouldn’t go down there, i hear that’s where the Nazi zombies live.
[reply]A lot of the nazi bunkers/pillboxes are still there… not maintained at all, unlit and stretch underground for a fair old while. Scared myself badly walking around them
check out all these nazi muppets in europe telling everyone to never forget.
We haven’t mate, that’s why people throw bricks at you when you visit London
Indeed - in Odessa a few weeks back, the west funded euromaidan agents of democracy set fire to a building full of ethnic russians and and beat to death anyone who tried to escape.
More or less total mainstream blackout - disgusting
Indeed - in Odessa a few weeks back, the west funded euromaidan agents of democracy set fire to a building full of ethnic russians and and beat to death anyone who tried to escape.
More or less total mainstream blackout - disgusting
Yep, I saw that reportage too - pathetic.
Here is hoping the Barack Star will make at least some effort to avoid all-out war with Russia (and thus retroactively earn his Nobel Peace Prize, lol) but these early signs aren’t totally promising.
damn, didn’t know Faith No More’s old guitarist was that old…
[laugh]
anyway, much respect for him and to all our troops, past and present (and future) . I don’t always agree with wars and politics, but I respect those who put their lives on the line if they believe it to be for a good cause.
damn, didn’t know Faith No More’s old guitarist was that old…
Twice as old and half the glasses.
Guitarist Jim Martin (this is likely the only FNM piece of trivia I have) was also, in later years, a champion grower of giant pumpkins up in the WA area.
In 1999, I was on a train from Brisbane to Bundaberg. The lady that I was sat next to on the train was from the Netherlands. She told me of the day that the Americans liberated her village, and that they were forever grateful.
The good ol’ days when nationalism and patriotism had meaning. When there was able to be a clear cut good and evil. The world is just very different now.
Dunno about that mate… I am proud that Britain beat the shit out of the fascists but the UK wasn’t exactly ruled by the green party back then… we ruled the world by the barrel of a rifle, pioneered concentration camps in south africa (full of women and kids), eugenics was en vogue, Churchill believed in Jewish conspiracies & had striking Welsh miners shot.
Of course we would have been much worse off under the Third Reich & I’m not ignorant of the privileges I enjoy… but in many ways it was just racist European empires having it out so badly that the Americans and Russians end up stepping in to claim the spoils and make vassal states of us
How dare you believe in some kind of good in the world
America invaded western europe - and thank fuck they did. But that is what they did.
The clever part was they integrated us into their system as vassal states & laced our territories with their military presence (bases and listening posts which to this day even the UK has zero powers to remove), but didn’t hang US flags from every corner & let us have our petty nationalisms in ways the Soviets were reluctant to with their satellites
Japanese war crimes were probably the most sickening… Brits and Germans may have carpet bombed cities but some of the stuff going on in manchuria was biblically nasty
Japanese war crimes were probably the most sickening… Brits and Germans may have carpet bombed cities but some of the stuff going on in manchuria was biblically nasty
I read a lot about them a few years ago, they got off light after the war considering what they’d done. This is one of the most horrific things i’ve ever read;
But still, what the fuck? You didn’t even bother with the war until December 1941 - two and a half years after Hitler invaded Poland.
Where the fuck were you then?
Oh right! There’s no OIL in Poland!![/quote]
The U.S. was still recovering from the great depression and our leaders had a policy of non involvement because so. Oil wasn’t fought over back then as it is now. At the time most of our oil was domestic, so oil wasn’t even an issue
[reply]Am I right?
no.
Oh and thank you Obama for chewing gum throughout the D Day ceremony. Touch of class I thought! Remember, he’s a “progressive”. wink wink.
<mutters> Muslim loving socialist bastard traitor</mutters>