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06-12-2007, 03:03 PM
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| The Dixie Division   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Not far enough in the woods
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 | More Bravery I was thinking about the recent thread on Bravest man of the war and I thought about this brave little man, trying so hard to hold back his tears as he accepts his slain father's flag.  |
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06-12-2007, 03:16 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| A very moving picture indeed Jeff.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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06-12-2007, 04:53 PM
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| Ubique  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| Can't see any photo??
__________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm |
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06-12-2007, 05:32 PM
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| the deadliest b#tch ever   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Russian Federation
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__________________ I DRIVE HONDA. HONDA - POWER IN YOUR ARMS. Grandfather: front medic, caught by nazi in defence of Moscow 1941, placed into POW camp, ran away from camp, got a gangrene, lost left leg, survived war, now RIP. INTERACTIVE BOOK of EASTERN FRONT from 22 june 1941 to 9th may 1945 (5+ hours of show with videos, photos, audio notes from soviet veterans etc.): http://english.pobediteli.ru FEEL FREE TO CORRECT MY ENGLISH! ALL!.. HOPE!.. IS!.. GONE!..    マキシマムザホルモン [Makishimamu Za Horumon] | |
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06-12-2007, 06:14 PM
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| The Dixie Division Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Not far enough in the woods
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| Christian Golcznski Try this page Christian Golcznski His father had been gone for at least two of this little boy's eight years and now he's gone for the rest of his life. Last edited by Slipdigit; 06-12-2007 at 06:17 PM. |
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08-12-2007, 07:27 AM
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| Living in Ypres   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ypres
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| This picture made me think, transfer it back 30 years it could be a ceremony for a Vietnam casualty..... what happened to all those grieving kids that are now in their 30's and 40's, I bet a lot of them went completely off the rails, and for what? Oh we did get the Rambo films I suppose....... Very very sad image |
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08-12-2007, 01:50 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: North Mississippi
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| Heart-rending image, reminds us that the soldiers and Marines aren't the only ones who risk it all for our safety and freedom. May God bless this family and grant them peace.
__________________ (my avatar is Sgt. Bill R. "Buck" Buchanan, USMC Pacific Theater...or grandad to me) "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time." - Lieutenant General Lewis B."Chesty" Puller, USMC World Sports Talk Forum |
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08-12-2007, 08:09 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Heart rending indeed Nolan. His father would be proud of his son as I think we all are.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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