<div class="IPBDescription">And some of europe</div>lets take a second to remember operation overlord, which began today, and all the people killed/wounded in it.
germany is in part of europe. and june 6th, yesterday, was the day when operation overlord (sort of) began, when US, canadian, and many other troops landed on the beaches of normandy.
<!--QuoteBegin--Tactician+June 07 2002,07:50--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Tactician @ June 07 2002,07:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hey, don't forget about all the poor Germans that died defending their homeland. Since we're handing out respect along national lines.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hmmm. I'm not sure I am going to agree that the Germans defending the French beaches (after they had invaded that country) were doing anything to protect their homeland. At least, that couldn't have been avoided by not taking over all of Europe in the first place...
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PAY ATTENTION. yesterday was the somethingth anniversary of D-DAY, WHEN TROOPS FROM VARIOUS NATIONALITIES LANDED ON NORMAN BEACHES IN AN ATTEMPT TO WREST A SIZABLE PORTION OF LAND FROM THE GRIP OF HITLER. get it now?
I try to be as uncritical as possible in a public forum like this but this particular thread is causing me to lose all faith in the education people are receiving of late. The topic being discussed here and the information being posted should be common knowledge. Even if you've never set foot in a history class or picked up a history book you should have gleaned that much from popular culture.
Saving Private Ryan Band of Brothers Day of Defeat (one of the beach maps is called Overlord, for crying out loud)
All of the above deal with D-Day in some fashion and while they certainly aren't the best way to come by an education, they're a good place to get started.
I'd hate to think that the men who died on those beaches did so only so that they could be forgotten in a mere 58 years.
<!--QuoteBegin--Graheim+June 07 2002,11:11--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Graheim @ June 07 2002,11:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'd hate to think that the men who died on those beaches did so only so that they could be forgotten in a mere 58 years.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> si si si.
although, If you were to refer to D-Day as opposed to Operation Overlord, I think more people would understand- not as many people know the operation's name so much as what it was referred to afterwards as: D-Day
The name D-Day just sticks in my craw as a semantic issue: there were thousands and thousands of D-Day's. It's just parlance for the day an operation starts (there is is also an H-Hour). The news media at the time made it into 'The D-Day' that it gets referred to as. Operation Overlord, the European invasion; either of those is more correct.
But I digress... I understand Graheim completely. Perhaps because we are both veterans (and of a service which relishes the past experiences of its members, the Marine Corps), we are more easily irritated by people's short memories. I bet people would remember more easily if we were all speaking German now (or Russian, soon after).
Unfortunatly this seems to be the way of history, and its where the term "History Repeats Itself" comes from. We forget, and do it all over again <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
EX: How many of you Americans know the basic facts about your own civil war? For that matter, how many Canadians know about your country's involvment in WWI/WWII? (this is not flame bait, mearly food for thought)
I, a Canadian student, am actually fairly familiar with Canadian involvement in WWI and WWII, since both wars were major units in history class. I would also hazard a guess that a good percentage of young people in Canada are being taught about history. It's a shame that there are a few who either don't care or weren't able to become edjucated on the subject.
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Thoughts go to Normandy.
/me bows head in silence
Hmmm. I'm not sure I am going to agree that the Germans defending the French beaches (after they had invaded that country) were doing anything to protect their homeland. At least, that couldn't have been avoided by not taking over all of Europe in the first place...
yeah, what is this all about? WW2?
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Day of Defeat (one of the beach maps is called Overlord, for crying out loud)
All of the above deal with D-Day in some fashion and while they certainly aren't the best way to come by an education, they're a good place to get started.
I'd hate to think that the men who died on those beaches did so only so that they could be forgotten in a mere 58 years.
si si si.
although, If you were to refer to D-Day as opposed to Operation Overlord, I think more people would understand- not as many people know the operation's name so much as what it was referred to afterwards as: D-Day
But I digress... I understand Graheim completely. Perhaps because we are both veterans (and of a service which relishes the past experiences of its members, the Marine Corps), we are more easily irritated by people's short memories. I bet people would remember more easily if we were all speaking German now (or Russian, soon after).
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EX: How many of you Americans know the basic facts about your own civil war? For that matter, how many Canadians know about your country's involvment in WWI/WWII? (this is not flame bait, mearly food for thought)