On this Day in History

Good reminder, Scotty. Did you know the Battle of Midway and the the Battle of Guadalcanal coincided with the only WW2 campaign fought on American soil (in the territory of Alaska)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign

I did not..  

In 1872 The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to include blacks, commences.

D-Day

Yup D day , the beginning of the end for the Nazi's .

Oh wait trump loves em . He said so in response to the Charlottesville incident last year ! Quote : " there are Some good people on both sides "  

Yes, D-Day.

One of the many reason we stand out of respect during the National Anthem.

Yup D day , many fought that we may exercise our Bill of Rights guaranteed freedoms

Wow.

D-Day by the numbers

....and one ship commanded by my grandfather.

Those numbers are remarkable.

Very cool about your g-dad

my g-dad fought in both theaters of WWII and lived ---- he never spoke of the war to me --- my mom recalls only one time when one of his war buddies stopped by that he talked about it. It must have been pure hell. As a teenager too. I can't imagine.

Excellent graphic display DB !! Thanks for posting

Like many of you i had an uncle survive D day and then fight in the Battle of the Bulge and the the Battle of the Remagen Bridgehead ( the last bridge over the Rhine ) . I also had a colleague at the college who did this . He enlisted at 17 lied about his age  and was with Patton . BOTH men survived . Both never talked too much about it .

My wife's uncle island hopped with MacArthur in th ePacific campaign and freed The Phillippines . We just buried him a year ago with full military honors . We owe  these men and women so much . They are deserving of the title " The Greatest Generation "  

These Quiet , humble people just gave their all to preserve our freedoms then came back home and BUILT this nation into an Industrial giant

Today is the 8th

ScottyJack wrote

A good place for a bomb.