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Coaxial

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:42am |
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cc_rider wrote:I remember an interview with Eddie Arnold (Green Acres) regarding his service at Tarawa (Pacific island). I think it was before SPR came out, but when I saw the movie, my first thought was that interview with Eddie Arnold. Same situation, same horrors.
They don't make them like him any more.
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cc_rider

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:41am |
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DaveInVA wrote: I'm sure my Dad had a few hairy moments on his Navy aircraft carrier in the Pacific...
My grandfather served on the USS Boise, which earned eleven battle stars during the War. He never really talked about it, which probably says more than words could.
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cc_rider

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:39am |
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mzpro5 wrote:It has become a bit of a cliche but the first 15-20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is about as close as anyone that was not there can get to knowing what it was like. I remember an interview with Eddie Arnold (Green Acres) regarding his service at Tarawa (Pacific island). I think it was before SPR came out, but when I saw the movie, my first thought was that interview with Eddie Arnold. Same situation, same horrors.
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jagdriver

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:36am |
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DaveInVA wrote:I'm sure my Dad had a few hairy moments on his Navy aircraft carrier in the Pacific... Like the Battle of Midway? Wake Island? Fending off kamikaze attacks? Yeah, not a barrel of monkeys, to be sure.
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DaveInSaoMiguel

Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:  
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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:33am |
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jagdriver wrote: As are the experiences of the island-hoping Marines in the Pacific. I'm sure my Dad had a few hairy moments on his Navy aircraft carrier in the Pacific...
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sirdroseph

Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:  
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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:31am |
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jagdriver wrote: As are the experiences of the island-hoping Marines in the Pacific. I was just thinking the same thing.
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jagdriver

Location: Now in Lobster Land Gender:  
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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:28am |
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Coaxial wrote:I'd heard that. Still can't even compare to watching the door drop on the LST and you are suddenly walking across bodies as your life replays itself in your head. Beyond my comprehension.  As are the experiences of the island-hoping Marines in the Pacific.
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Coaxial

Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:  
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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:19am |
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mzpro5 wrote:
It has become a bit of a cliche but the first 15-20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is about as close as anyone that was not there can get to knowing what it was like.
I'd heard that. Still can't even compare to watching the door drop on the LST and you are suddenly walking across bodies as your life replays itself in your head. Beyond my comprehension.
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jagdriver

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:16am |
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oldslabsides wrote:The beginning of the film Saving Private Ryan is as close as anyone who wasn't there is likely to get, and I'm certain it's a damn poor illustration of the reality.  But imagine if we had real 3D with peripheral vision.... more of a virtual reality experience....
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Red_Dragon

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:15am |
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jagdriver wrote: I've made quite a study of this and still cannot fathom what it might have been like to be one of those bobbing about in an LST.
The beginning of the film Saving Private Ryan is as close as anyone who wasn't there is likely to get, and I'm certain it's a damn poor illustration of the reality.
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mzpro5

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:12am |
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jagdriver wrote: I've made quite a study of this and still cannot fathom what it might have been like to be one of those bobbing about in an LST.
It has become a bit of a cliche but the first 15-20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is about as close as anyone that was not there can get to knowing what it was like.
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jagdriver

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Jun 6, 2012 - 11:06am |
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oldslabsides wrote:1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy
I've made quite a study of this and still cannot fathom what it might have been like to be one of those bobbing about in an LST.
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Coaxial

Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:  
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Jun 6, 2012 - 10:39am |
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oldslabsides wrote:1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy
D-Day. A day that changed the world. The Atlantic's waters were red. Not many of those folks left. We each should find ways to keep their memories alive.
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Red_Dragon

Location: Dumbf*ckistan 
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Jun 6, 2012 - 6:03am |
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1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy
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kurtster

Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:  
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May 27, 2012 - 1:28pm |
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DaveInVA wrote: A special part of my childhood growing up. We could see it from where I lived on the east side of the bay. Memories of crossing it in fog with the glow of the special sodium lights it had. Ferry rides across the bay going by the bridge and Alcatraz, which was still open. These ferry boats were what was used as the police station in Nash Bridges. Being high up on a hill side where you could overlook the bay, see the fog roll in and fill up the entire basin, with the bridge disappearing except for the very tops poking above the fog. Its was like someone dumped dry ice into the bay. The whole panarama of seeing the peaks of the hills poking about the fluffy and sometimes roiling fog under the bright sunlight above the fog... Its kinda mind boggling thinking back that it still pretty new when I was a kid. Now its a majestic lady overlooking the Bay.
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DaveInSaoMiguel

Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:  
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May 27, 2012 - 9:55am |
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Alexandra

Location: PNW Gender:  
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May 18, 2012 - 7:31pm |
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Mt St Helens erupted, in 1980 And this is her today...
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helenofjoy

Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Gender:  
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May 12, 2012 - 8:37am |
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hippiechick wrote: Yes, tear gas. Hard to remember anything that happened right before the shooting.
This gave me chills! They probably had not registered what had just happened. It still profoundly shocks me that this happened in the USA. That you were there is also chilling! What a horrible wake up call.
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K_Love

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May 11, 2012 - 8:58am |
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Bob Marley passed away 31 years ago today. "Good friends we have, good friends we have lost, along the way. "
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Red_Dragon

Location: Dumbf*ckistan 
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May 8, 2012 - 5:56am |
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1945: VE Day
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