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If you know somebody that is a world war II veteran, thank them for their contribution to the presevation of peace.

They are not going to be around a lot longer.

Jim T.

thank you from my family to all veterans and the men and women in uniform right now in foreign lands and at home.

Tell me about it. My favorite uncle jumped into Normandy w/ the 101st the night before the LCVPs/Higgins boats landed. He still limped decades later from the wounds he took later at Bastogne, where he talked the medics and then the surgeons out of amputating a leg. My aunt was a hero for dealing with him: she lived through 40 years of him fighting jerries in his sleep in the same bed. My family has no problem remembering each June.

I watched "D-Day" on the Military Channel last night and boy did it tug at the heart-strings watching those old diggers cry, remembering their fallens brothers.

Thanks to them we aren't all speaking German today.