France Will Not Forget
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Holland is the same, if you're an American Soldier you'll never buy a beer there.
There's a grade school with a grave yard of fallen Allied troops next to it. Every year a little kid is assigned a grave and they make sure it's well kept, place flowers on it, all that. Once a year the kids have a ceremony to remember and thank Allied Forces for freeing them from German occupying forces. To them, it's still very real and they're not allowing the kids to forget.
They hold an Airborne Operation also, where all Allied paratroopers mix in different planes for a commemorative jump. A few years ago they started allowing Germans to jump also. The Holland jumpmasters who guide the jumpers out the door kicked and punched the sh!t out of all the Germans as they exited the bird but when an American walked up the jumpmaster would just grab the static line and step out of the way. It was pretty funny.
There's a grade school with a grave yard of fallen Allied troops next to it. Every year a little kid is assigned a grave and they make sure it's well kept, place flowers on it, all that. Once a year the kids have a ceremony to remember and thank Allied Forces for freeing them from German occupying forces. To them, it's still very real and they're not allowing the kids to forget.
They hold an Airborne Operation also, where all Allied paratroopers mix in different planes for a commemorative jump. A few years ago they started allowing Germans to jump also. The Holland jumpmasters who guide the jumpers out the door kicked and punched the sh!t out of all the Germans as they exited the bird but when an American walked up the jumpmaster would just grab the static line and step out of the way. It was pretty funny.
I have stood on that beach and it is as powerful a place for an American to visit as there is. With all the talk about the confederate soldiers of late, I am reminded that we do have men that we should honor. Men who gave their lives to free a race, rather than continue to enslave them.
Many of those men died on this beach. God bless them.
Many of those men died on this beach. God bless them.
A buddy of mine had a teacher years ago who was at Normandy. The day before the invasion, he was brought in and told what his job would be: he would be stationed on a boat with a special gun. He was ordered to shoot any American soldiers who tried turning around in the water to come back to the boats or soldiers who weren't proceeding through the water.
He said that he ended up staying busy in that job.
He said that he ended up staying busy in that job.
He was probably making that shi* up. Most people that go through that stuff don't talk about it, especially to a group of school kids.
