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Originally Posted by swatsurgeon
If you have the chance to speak to some of the remaining few D-Day vets, take advantage of it and thank a hero.
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IIRC, there's a whole town full of them up your way, and the 29th ID "Blue Gray" was right in the thick of it on Omaha Beach alongside the Rangers and the Big Red One.
RIP, Bedford Boys. 96% casualites, in A Company, BEFORE they left the landing craft.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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