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15-041 Garand Picture of the Day - 82d Abn Div
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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It's amazing to me how little of that gear made it into the drop zone.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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I think it made it to the drop zone just not as intended
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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The 'old soldier' in me has me wondering how many of those whose faces I am seeing 70+ years later lived to see the sunset the next day. It is something I experience each time I see a picture of the D-Day invasion troops taken before embarkation. Knowing the high casualty rate experienced by US Airborne forces between 0001Z and 0600Z on 6 June 1944 alone ......
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I know it was before my time but thank god for all involved as thanks for my way of life would not be.
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