D-Day
 

65 years today

god rest their souls

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Man, I couldn't even imagine what a G.I. must've thought knowing what waited for him on the shore. Much respect.

watching saving private ryan on history channel right now

knowing by risking there lives they have a chance to let there loved ones live a free peacefull life and not have to hopefully deal with something like that anytime soon.

That's a good movie, saw it a while back while learning about the D-day battle.

p.s. now I'm watching it ;)

Just watched it too haha

Much respect and appreciation. Certainly has allowed us to have better lives.

I was just about to make a post about it too, WW2 is the last righteous war to take place.


may God rest their souls


oh and yea, anybody else annoyed at all the commercials History channel managed to squeeze into Saving Private Ryan......hard to get into the mood of the movie with non stop commercials, The movie ran from 9pm to 1am, and it's 170 mins long only, so adds up to over an hour of commercials combined, they put 3 commercials alone in the last 15 mins alone

These men were truly of a different breed. We owe every single thing we enjoy today to the fine men who stood for what our country is now.

All Due Respect.

All Due Respect... These men truly gave their lives for a better tomorrow...

Not anything like in Saving Private Ryan.

I was at Omaha beach last year, in the movie the beachhead is about 100 feet away from the shore. In real life its about a mile.

Hollywood for you.

EDIT: Here's a picture of Omaha beach (the beach the Americans took) that I took last year. As you can see there's a great distance between sand and ledge up top. Not taking anything away from the soldiers that risked their lives that day in Normandy, but Saving Private Ryan was complete bullshit.

When I got to Omaha beach my first instinct was you have got to be fucking kidding me. Thanks Tom Hanks

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There was an interesting show on before Saving Private Ryan too. They discussed all the cock ups that happened during the Normandy invasion. US bombers were to have pummeled the beach line before the raid took place with 'precision bombing' on the turret emplacements. Not only did they miss the guns, for the most part, they missed the beaches altogether. This meant that allied infantry were up against the Jerry guns at full strength, as opposed to a weakened state from bombing. This was just one of many major failures along the way. Amazing feat they all pulled off there.

all these people that died would piss themselfs if they saw canada today. we've lost so many rights and freedoms, these people fought for almost nothing. It's a sad shame.

care to expand on that?

Much respect and appreciate!

perhaps the greatest most influential moment in modern man's history

great men.

so what are you trying to say? if anything the added distance made the stretch up to the ledge even more trecherous, not to mention who's to say what the water level was like 60 years ago?

a .50 cal machine gun could still hit the water line from the hill..

watched spr as well...

Hollywood. God damnit, why are you trying to discredit my post exactly?

amazing pics

Confused???? :confused:

Was the second world war about saving Canada? I thought it was about liberating Europe from under Jerry Jackboots? Maybe ending the systematic eradication of Jews? Restoring democracy? Fuck, I got it all wrong :(

exactly!

Good post, certainly a defining moment in World War II. Can't imagine what the world would be like if the other side had won.

On a side note, let me try to play the UN here with the whole movies issue..

Hollywood movies based on historical facts have rarely been completely accurate. These movies need to make money at the box office hence they need engage viewers with something more than a strict time line of what happened. There's movies like Schindler's List that portray events quite accurately, while crappier historical movies such as Pearl Harbor take events and add drama at the expense accuracy to try to get more viewers. In the end, both the good and bad movies raise awareness of what has happened in the past and usually stir up interest.