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by Kreiger on 10 November 2009 - 13:11
As Veterans day approaches we all need to take a minute out of our busy schedules to think about what our enlisted men and women do for our country,the United States of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbRGksthTHQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbRGksthTHQ&feature=player_embedded
by steve1 on 10 November 2009 - 14:11
Not only for America but for all the Guys and Gals who put there lives on the line and gave it up for the civilians and there countries
Tomorrow the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th Month let us all remember them, for without there sacifice where would we be now
Steve1
Tomorrow the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th Month let us all remember them, for without there sacifice where would we be now
Steve1
by darylehret on 11 November 2009 - 01:11
And what we can do to ease their return....
http://www.callofdutyendowment.org/
http://www.callofdutyendowment.org/
by Sunsilver on 11 November 2009 - 08:11
In 1939, my dad and his best friend, Ed, went down to the C.N.E. grounds in Toronto to enlist to fight in W.W.II. During the medical part of the exam, the x-ray showed shadows in my dad's lungs. He was sent home as unfit for duty.
His friend passed the physical, and enrolled in the R.A.F., as he felt their planes were better and safer than the Canadian air force's planes. He became the navigator on a Lancaster bomber crew.
On one of their first missions, their plane was shot down. My uncle was the sole survivor. The pilot struggled to keep his craft in the air long enough for the crew to bail out, then crashed with his plane.
Ed spent over 3 years in a German P.O.W. camp. He came home in time to stand up for my dad as his Best Man when he married my mother. At the wedding, Ed met my mom's youngest sister, Edith, and took a shine to her. As the honeymoon couple spent their wedding night at Toronto's Royal York Hotel, Ed and Edith took off on an excursion to Niagara Falls. As soon as Edith finished her training as a Registered Nurse, she and Ed married.
To his dying day, Ed carried a burden of guilt that nothing was able to lift. Why had he survived, when his whole crew had perished? And not just his crew, either. He'd persuaded a number of his friends to sign up with the R.A.F. rather than the R.C.A.F. When he tried to hunt his buddies up at the end of the war, he found nearly all of them were dead, killed during the Battle of Britain.
Never have so many owed so much to so few...
Rest in peace, Uncle Ed. I hope you've found peace and solace for your guilt at last. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow at the 11th hour.
His friend passed the physical, and enrolled in the R.A.F., as he felt their planes were better and safer than the Canadian air force's planes. He became the navigator on a Lancaster bomber crew.
On one of their first missions, their plane was shot down. My uncle was the sole survivor. The pilot struggled to keep his craft in the air long enough for the crew to bail out, then crashed with his plane.
Ed spent over 3 years in a German P.O.W. camp. He came home in time to stand up for my dad as his Best Man when he married my mother. At the wedding, Ed met my mom's youngest sister, Edith, and took a shine to her. As the honeymoon couple spent their wedding night at Toronto's Royal York Hotel, Ed and Edith took off on an excursion to Niagara Falls. As soon as Edith finished her training as a Registered Nurse, she and Ed married.
To his dying day, Ed carried a burden of guilt that nothing was able to lift. Why had he survived, when his whole crew had perished? And not just his crew, either. He'd persuaded a number of his friends to sign up with the R.A.F. rather than the R.C.A.F. When he tried to hunt his buddies up at the end of the war, he found nearly all of them were dead, killed during the Battle of Britain.
Never have so many owed so much to so few...
Rest in peace, Uncle Ed. I hope you've found peace and solace for your guilt at last. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow at the 11th hour.
by steve1 on 11 November 2009 - 10:11
Yes, We will remember them, I too lost Two Uncles in WW11, My Dad was one of the lucky ones to come back
Steve1
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