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sooner n houston
1/22/2006, 07:18 AM
If you haven't seen this please do.

If this has already been posted, my apologies.


http://www.managedmusic.com/beforeyougo.html
BajaOklahoma
1/22/2006, 09:09 AM
It makes me cry.
So many have already gone.
Okla-homey
1/22/2006, 02:48 PM
Great images, but the audio is kinda the succ. I bet one of our compooter geniuii could set it to better tunage.
olevetonahill
1/22/2006, 02:50 PM
Very moving especially this day
We lost my Uncle yesterday 87 yeras , marched across Europe in WW 11
Funeral tomorrow at 2
Pray for his family if you will
Newbomb Turk
1/22/2006, 03:43 PM
Very moving especially this day
We lost my Uncle yesterday 87 yeras , marched across Europe in WW 11
Funeral tomorrow at 2
Pray for his family if you will

Sorry to hear that. :(
Prayers done!
BOOMERBRADLEY
1/22/2006, 06:33 PM
Truly the greatest generation
sooner n houston
2/3/2006, 08:19 PM
I don't get to post much these days but I think this one deserves another round.
SoonerBorn68
2/3/2006, 10:54 PM
I agree. That's moving to the point of tears. Every chance I get to talk to a WWII vet I do. None I've ever talked to profess to be heroes--only doing their jobs.

vet, sorry to hear about your uncle. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
bigdsooner
2/3/2006, 11:19 PM
wow, it gives me chills watchin it. those are true heroes
mikeelikee
2/4/2006, 12:26 AM
God bless them all. My late Dad was among them, in the European Theater. My wife and I attended the dedication of the WWII Memorial in Washington in 2004, over Memorial Day weekend. I personally thanked every blessed veteran I met that weekend. We can't thank them enough.

The greatest generation? It's no contest.
85Sooner
2/4/2006, 11:21 AM
Great and so true. I don't know if this country has the wear with all to be able to do what they did at this point in history which is a shame and is scary as well. My grandfather was never in uniform but did work on the manhatten project. I see him on TV every once in a while when there is a show about it.
AlbqSooner
2/4/2006, 11:30 AM
My dad made 3 beach landings. North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Marched up the boot of Italy through places like Anzio and Monte Casino. A 23 year old M.D. at the time. I never recall him talking about it as anything but a part of his early life.

A couple of years ago when I got around to asking for what he was awarded the Silver Star, he just shrugged and said, I guess I did my job well.

That to me sums up the veterans of that war. "We just did our job."
fadada1
2/4/2006, 11:50 AM
my great uncle was an artilleryman during the battle of the bulge. i need to sit down with him before is time is up. my dad has mentoned that uncle mart was affected by it and never has said much. maybe he'll open up a little.
85Sooner
2/4/2006, 12:14 PM
i HAD TO DO A REPORT in college and interviewed two guys from my church. One a dive bomber pilot in the pacific (shot down 5 times), the other a B-17 navigator Shot down and captured by the germans a couple of months before the end of the war. Once I got them alone, they opened up a little but never in a bragidocious way. Heros they are.