The Boy on Omaha Beach

[rangerrebew]

https://pinearts.smugmug.com/The-Boy-on-the-Beach-Omaha-Beach-2014/i-vPVMh5F/A

[Smokin Joe]

 

[Lando Lincoln]

Poignant beyond words. Thank you @rangerrebew.

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k9Si28k0Fk

[andy58-in-nh]

@rangerrebew
Thank you for this image.

[Lando Lincoln]

@rangerrebew
Thank you for this image.

Wonderful.

[sneakypete]

@rangerrebew

For some odd reason my vision got blurry.

[mystery-ak]

OMG...I cried all through this....

I want to thank the Father of this boy who taught his son the importance of this day...I salute them boy!

[Lando Lincoln]

OMG...I cried all through this....

I want to thank the Father of this boy who taught his son the importance of this day...I salute them boy!

My uncle was a 22 year-old paratrooper with the 101st Airborne that day in 1944.  He was my true, real-life hero. What a man.

[mystery-ak]

My uncle was a 22 year-old paratrooper with the 101st Airborne that day in 1944.  He was my true, real-life hero. What a man.

Tell me he survived the war...

[Bigun]

My uncle was a 22 year-old paratrooper with the 101st Airborne that day in 1944.  He was my true, real-life hero. What a man.

.

Two of my mother's brothers and a brother-in-law crossed one of those Normandy beaches. One made it all the way to Berlin. All three survived the war. They, and my South Pacific Marine father, have always been my heroes. All of them now rest near my home. And BTW @sneakypete I had a REAL hard time typing this through the waterworks.

[Lando Lincoln]

Tell me he survived the war...

He did - with only a slight wound to his thigh. He started with the 82nd but was transferred to the “upstart” 101st. He was a trained glider pilot and a paratroop. He also jumped on the Market Garden operation in Belgium.

Growing up, he taught me and my brothers so much. One word: integrity. He showed me the ways of the northwoods. I loved felling trees with him and listen to his laugh and stories. He didn’t talk too much about the war but to say he was just doing his job.

He passed in 2021 at 99 years-old. Rest in Peace, Uncle Harvey.

[Lando Lincoln]

.

Two of my mother's brothers and a brother-in-law crossed one of those Normandy beaches. One made it all the way to Berlin. All three survived the war. They, and my South Pacific Marine father, have always been my heroes. All of them now rest near my home. And BTW @sneakypete I had a REAL hard time typing this through the waterworks.

I’m in awe of what they did. And yes, my hay fever has really kicked in.

[mystery-ak]

He did - with only a slight wound to his thigh. He started with the 82nd but was transferred to the “upstart” 101st. He was a trained glider pilot and a paratroop. He also jumped on the Market Garden operation in Belgium.

Growing up, he taught me and my brothers so much. One word: integrity. He showed me the ways of the northwoods. I loved felling trees with him and listen to his laugh and stories. He didn’t talk too much about the war but to say he was just doing his job.

He passed in 2021 at 99 years-old. Rest in Peace, Uncle Harvey.

  Thank you Uncle Harvey and all the others who stormed those beaches and parachuted over France that fateful day in June..

[Bigun]

He did - with only a slight wound to his thigh. He started with the 82nd but was transferred to the “upstart” 101st. He was a trained glider pilot and a paratroop. He also jumped on the Market Garden operation in Belgium.

Growing up, he taught me and my brothers so much. One word: integrity. He showed me the ways of the northwoods. I loved felling trees with him and listen to his laugh and stories. He didn’t talk too much about the war but to say he was just doing his job.

He passed in 2021 at 99 years-old. Rest in Peace, Uncle Harvey.

Your uncle Harvey would have fit right in with the group that always formed at family gatherings while they were alive @Lando Lincoln and I always wanted to hear their conversations but they clamed up when any of us got close enough to hear. Only after I returned from Vietnam did they let me in a little. I now understand why that was. Only those who had been there could understand anything they were talking about, and they did not want to have to try to explain it to them.

I salute Uncle Harvey and ALL his brothers in arms!  May they rest in peace! They certainly earned it!

[PeteS in CA]

... He also jumped on the Market Garden operation in Belgium.
...

Monty's ____-up.

More importantly, I'm grateful for all y'all's relatives who served. My Dad and one of his brothers were 4-F. His other brother, Erwin, served in North Africa and Italy as a mechanic. He could have been an interpreter, German being his "first language", but being a "farmboy", his skills as a mechanic were more valuable (sometimes the Army actually did things that made sense, and German-speaking Americans were not uncommon in the 1940s).

[Cyber Liberty]