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    Post D-Day. Some photos to help you appreciate the sacrifices.

    Haunted and wounded, heavily-bandaged US soldiers enjoy brief respite from gunfire by the Normandy shore: Harrowing photographs show the horrific reality faced by 70,000 Americans during the D-Day landings.


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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-landings.html
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    I think a very accurate portrayal of the event is the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. My war experience is a couple of artillery attacks from shore batteries on my ship in Vietnam with a few casualties. I cannot imagine the fear and stress these men went though for hours on end on this one day. The fact that any of them came out of this of sound mind is astonishing.

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    Today’s society couldn’t handle what happened on D Day. Today we are supposed to go to war and suffer no fatalities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    I think a very accurate portrayal of the event is the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. My war experience is a couple of artillery attacks from shore batteries on my ship in Vietnam with a few casualties. I cannot imagine the fear and stress these men went though for hours on end on this one day. The fact that any of them came out of this of sound mind is astonishing.
    My Uncle went into Normandy the day after the D Day invasion. He told me that there was still blood in the water. It was brutal beyond imagination.

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