Remember VE Day
 

Just a reminder that today, May 8th is VE Day. You may not be able to find it on a calendar anymore because for some reason it is not PC. I don't understand why because it marks the end of a very bad time in world history. I can't imagine how all of the families in the USA felt knowing that the war in Europe had ended.

Never forget!

2F

Re: Remember VE Day
 

Indeed! I can't even imagine what that must have been like.

Re: Remember VE Day
 

"The Greatest Generation" went to Europe and WHUPPED Adolf's BUTT!! ... we should never forget what our lives would be like if they hadn't ...



Thanks for the reminder, 2F ...

Re: Remember VE Day
 

My father was one of many who served, I don't forget. Thanks for posting it ;)

Re: Remember VE Day
 

In the early 90's I was working in an ICU. I had taken a WW II history class in school and realized that a lot of the older guy's I was taking care of were WW II vets. I made a habit to talk to them about that time in their lives and the stories they told were incredible!

I met one guy who flew a Grumman F4F Wildcat in the battle of Midway. Another told me of being on Iwo Jima as part of a covert reconassaince team before the invasion. They had been on the island just a couple of day when the US bombardment began. They ended up hunkering down in a cave scared to death for days.

I remember another guy with a left forearm that was angulated from a poorly healed fracture. He had a WW II era tattoo on the arm and I asked him about the fracture. He said, "That was the luckiest break I ever got". Apparently he fell and broke his arm the day before the d-day invasion. His unit went ashore of one of the beaches that suffered very heavy casualties.

Those guys are gone now but I won't forget them.