El Paso veterans remember D-Day

To All Veterans:

Thank you for your service to this country.

Nacho wrote:

To All Veterans:
Thank you for your service to this country.

Well said. Amen.

Mr. Romero & Mr. Beamsderfer - thank you for keeping us safe.

All Americans owe these brave men a debt of gratitude for their service to this country. Thank you for what you did for all of us.

Nacho wrote:

To All Veterans:
Thank you for your service to this country.

Amen!

The only people that owe thanks are the Ripofflicans , W and the Chainys , that have made millions off these people dying for them.

Pete wrote:

These are truly real Heroes!! Thank you for your service and may God Bless you and your family.

I was a vet of the Vietnam War. Last Summer took a one month trip to Sicily and France. All along the beaches of Normandy, it's lined with multi-million dollar hotels and casino's. You walk out on the beaches, near the ocean and you get cold chills. It's almost like you can hear and see it all. The LST's coming in and troops jumping off, the gun fire, Sergeants yelling orders, the cries from the wounded and dying. One old Frenchman told me, " the ghosts of the heroes are here on these beaches and they will never leave us". Further North at Dunkirk, it's much the same. More than 9,000 troops buried at Normandy alone.

I wonder if people realize that 1,257,974 men and women have died since the Revolutionary War so that fools like us can come on threads like this and say anything we want because of the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. Thank God for the sacrifices our veterans have made.

Oest we forget the price of ours and yours freedom was very high and very great! Thank -you to every Soldier who has, had, and will wear the uniform of a United States soldier and their loyal families! Your honor and committment to duty to your country will never be forgotten!

A 28 year old Veteran..........

I was happy to see a street in North east El Paso that had flags flying along with service flags (2 army and one navy)

There is never enough words to describe our appreciation to our Veterans {past and present}for all the work they have done. But from MY HEART,please accept my prayers and hugs{lots of hugs} to all you ANGELS of our country U.S.A.! GOD BLESS everyone that has served/or is currently serving. A million kudos to all !!!!

Pete wrote:

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God Bless you sir!!!

Pete and abc..... From Omaha Beach, to Pork Chop Hill in Korea, to the mud and blood of the Mekong Delta, to Desert Storm, to Baghdad and Kabul, it's for people just like you that we, all of us, do what we do. Thank you.

Mr Ray Burchfeild, my father was with Co. K, 3rd platoon, 3rd squad, 357th Infantry, 90th Infantry Division. In my career with the military, I was assigned to the 12th SFGA, which came fromonce the 2nd Ranger that climbed the cliffs at Normandy. I also met two of the individuals at seprate time. One on a demostration in downtown Chicago on Armed Forces Week in May 82, and the other, sorry to say on a military funeral assignment. I also met a retired judge from the 7th or 9th Federal Circut Court, who said and I believe he was there driving one of those landing craft. I am so honored to meet such people in my life, because, when I think I have it tough, I know other had it tougher, and this keeps me moving. God has all those who defended us from such evil in his heart. Thank you.

Good bless all the veterans and their loved ones that had to sacrifice something most of us will never know. I for one will always remember D-Day and know that because of their sacrifice and all veterans we are free. Let us not forget the loved ones that also sacrificed.

God bless them all an they will never be forgotten.

We tell these vets that their sacrifice will never be forgotten. Unfortunately, I am very afraid that among the masses of upwardly-mobile progressive and modern urbanites, it's already forgotten. When the I-Pod is on the fritz or when the going gets ugly in a war zone 10,000 miles away, it's forgotten in todays media and today's pusillanimous population that men and women waded through bullets and died 65 years ago and last week so we could have our lives of comparative privilege.

gtommer wrote:

We tell these vets that their sacrifice will never be forgotten. Unfortunately, I am very afraid that among the masses of upwardly-mobile progressive and modern urbanites, it's already forgotten. When the I-Pod is on the fritz or when the going gets ugly in a war zone 10,000 miles away, it's forgotten in todays media and today's pusillanimous population that men and women waded through bullets and died 65 years ago and last week so we could have our lives of comparative privilege.

Sad but there is truth to your comments.

ABN Oritz wrote:

Mr Ray Burchfeild, my father was with Co. K, 3rd platoon, 3rd squad, 357th Infantry, 90th Infantry Division. In my career with the military, I was assigned to the 12th SFGA, which came fromonce the 2nd Ranger that climbed the cliffs at Normandy. I also met two of the individuals at seprate time. One on a demostration in downtown Chicago on Armed Forces Week in May 82, and the other, sorry to say on a military funeral assignment. I also met a retired judge from the 7th or 9th Federal Circut Court, who said and I believe he was there driving one of those landing craft. I am so honored to meet such people in my life, because, when I think I have it tough, I know other had it tougher, and this keeps me moving. God has all those who defended us from such evil in his heart. Thank you.

Thank you for the kind words towards my father. He doesn't get the internet but I will see that he gets your post, he does do direct e-mail. He is in the Veterans Home in El Paso, Texas. I think I learned a little more about him from this story, because he does not talk about this experience much at all.
Thank You.