psumner
Registered: April 2002
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 1594
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Sun July 11, 2004 10:33pm
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Rating: 10
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29 Let's Go!
http://www.29thdivision.com/
Bedford, Virginia is a small Blue Ridge mountain town of 3000. On D-Day, twenty-one of Bedford's sons would die on the beaches of Normandy. No other town would suffer such a devastating loss in equal proportion.
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Irishmaam
Honorary Lions of the Lowlands
Registered: February 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 5533
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Sun July 11, 2004 11:43pm
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Thanks Paul I am still in awe of his work. He was close enough without a doubt. Thanks for looking Cindy
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~Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war,
I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? ~
Eleanor Roosevelt
~They shall not grow old As we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them Nor the years condemAt the going down of the sun And in the morning
We will remember them ~
~Promises, and the Footprints of Menschlichkeit – humanity
I believe this; I know this to be true:
When you are born, you cry and the world rejoices. So live that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.
I also believe this to be true:
The human heart knows that which the eyes cannot see, the ears cannot hear and the mind cannot begin to comprehend~
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jim
Registered: July 2004
Location: long island , new york (huntington)
Posts: 0
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Mon July 12, 2004 7:29pm
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psumner
Registered: April 2002
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 1594
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It's hard to say, but it looks like the soldier on the left is a Naval Combat Engineer, there to clear the obstacles. Hard to believe but their job required them to stay on the beach for HOURS under constant fire.
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29 Let's Go!
http://www.29thdivision.com/
Bedford, Virginia is a small Blue Ridge mountain town of 3000. On D-Day, twenty-one of Bedford's sons would die on the beaches of Normandy. No other town would suffer such a devastating loss in equal proportion.
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Frank Gubbels
Lions of the Lowlands
Registered: November 2004
Location: Noorbeek. South-Limburg. The Netherlands.
Posts: 2856
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Mon January 31, 2005 8:45am
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Noorbeek is the first liberated community in The Netherlands. Thank you 30th Old Hickory Division  .
We are paratroopers Lieutenant. We are supposed to be surrounded!
Captain Winters in Bastogne 1944.
Liberation of Noorbeek. Take a look on our website. Use this link:
http://www.12-09-1944.nl/
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