MillRatUSMC
06-07-04, 12:12 AM
With the dedication of the World War II Memorial and D-Day 6th of June.
The media has covered every base bar none.
I 've learned more history about D-Day than I ever thought possible.
Operation Tiger if it had happen today, the investigations would still be ongoing.
800 souls were lost on a rehearsal for D-Day.
Those deaths were hidden from the American public, later they were added to the deaths that occurred on D-Day.
Many years later they erected a memorial to those souls that died when their convoy of ships were attack by nazi motor boats.
Tomorrow, the world won't notice the passing of a Veteran of that great war.
How sad!
On my weekly trips to the Community Veterans Memorial Park, I come on old men, that I know fought in that great war.
I try to speak to them about their war.
Some are Marines, most I recognize by the way they dress.
The gig-line is still in place.
Some sport a "high and tight"
Most have something denoting the Marine Corps
I exchange "Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi" with them.
Than we spend a few moments dicussing our time in the Corps
Soon they will all be gone...we're close to their age, so we know soon it will be our time.
Their was the last of what some call the "good war", most came home to a great celebration.
Some came home a year or two later...there no longer were there any celebrations.
So many felt they came home to indifference.
Just like the veterans of Korea and Vietnam.
Because many thought the outcomes of those two wars were different than World War II.
The last lines from Sally Johnson's poem FREEDOM;
"You need be thankful, have respect and admiration
It's to our Veterans we owe this beautiful Nation."
But the world feels indifferent to the fate of those Veterans who had their ten days in the limelight till the year 2014...but there won't be any World War II Memorial to dedicate.
How sad...
The media has covered every base bar none.
I 've learned more history about D-Day than I ever thought possible.
Operation Tiger if it had happen today, the investigations would still be ongoing.
800 souls were lost on a rehearsal for D-Day.
Those deaths were hidden from the American public, later they were added to the deaths that occurred on D-Day.
Many years later they erected a memorial to those souls that died when their convoy of ships were attack by nazi motor boats.
Tomorrow, the world won't notice the passing of a Veteran of that great war.
How sad!
On my weekly trips to the Community Veterans Memorial Park, I come on old men, that I know fought in that great war.
I try to speak to them about their war.
Some are Marines, most I recognize by the way they dress.
The gig-line is still in place.
Some sport a "high and tight"
Most have something denoting the Marine Corps
I exchange "Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi" with them.
Than we spend a few moments dicussing our time in the Corps
Soon they will all be gone...we're close to their age, so we know soon it will be our time.
Their was the last of what some call the "good war", most came home to a great celebration.
Some came home a year or two later...there no longer were there any celebrations.
So many felt they came home to indifference.
Just like the veterans of Korea and Vietnam.
Because many thought the outcomes of those two wars were different than World War II.
The last lines from Sally Johnson's poem FREEDOM;
"You need be thankful, have respect and admiration
It's to our Veterans we owe this beautiful Nation."
But the world feels indifferent to the fate of those Veterans who had their ten days in the limelight till the year 2014...but there won't be any World War II Memorial to dedicate.
How sad...