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tjmurphy
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D-DAY
Though I am not 100% positive, I think that this is a picture of my good friend, Bob Williams, loading up for the D-DAY invasion on June 6, 1944. He sent me this picture but did not identify it except to say "69 years ago June 6, 1944-2013 D-DAY!" There is knife content.
This is the picture that I post every year about this time. It is again of my good friend, Bob Williams, walking off the field after having made the same jump into Normandy fifty years later in 1994 at the age of 72. This picture was also the cover photo for the Time magazine report on the 50th anniversary of D-DAY. Our greatest heros are fading fast. Bob is now 91-years old, though you would never guess it. I am so proud to call this man Friend
"There are none so blind as those that refuse to see"
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
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Those old guys are/were awesome. You are indeed lucky to have him for a friend. I have an uncle who turns 91 tomorrow that was wounded in France. Shrapnel got the part he couldn't get in the fox hole.
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"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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May God bless your friend Bob Williams and all the others of the 'Greatest Generation'! They really were just that.
Ray
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"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain
"I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy." Augustus McCrae
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I'm hoping next year, the 70th anniversary, some media outlet will have the sense to replay Pres. Reagan's Normandy speech. I think it was one of his greatest.
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...........good thread, guys!!!......hope we never forget this anniversary!!!! ..................
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Leb7ynduCU[/youtube]Quick Steel wrote:I'm hoping next year, the 70th anniversary, some media outlet will have the sense to replay Pres. Reagan's Normandy speech. I think it was one of his greatest.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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If there is such a thing as a 'beautiful' speech, that was it. Lordy, we could sure use him now!
RIP Renauldus Magnus!
Ray
RIP Renauldus Magnus!
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God Bless the USA
Please visit my store SWEETWATER KNIVES
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain
"I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy." Augustus McCrae
God Bless the USA
Please visit my store SWEETWATER KNIVES
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain
"I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy." Augustus McCrae
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Paladin wrote:If there is such a thing as a 'beautiful' speech, that was it. Lordy, we could sure use him now!
RIP Renauldus Magnus!
Ray
Amen to that!
I dig half stops!!
"GOTTA DO WHATCHA GOTTA DO, SO THAT YOU GET TO DO, WHATCHA WANNA DO"
My Grandad.
God rest his soul.
Brian
"GOTTA DO WHATCHA GOTTA DO, SO THAT YOU GET TO DO, WHATCHA WANNA DO"
My Grandad.
God rest his soul.
Brian
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.........thanks for posting this, jerry!!!........outstanding!!!.....jerryd6818 wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Leb7ynduCU[/youtube]Quick Steel wrote:I'm hoping next year, the 70th anniversary, some media outlet will have the sense to replay Pres. Reagan's Normandy speech. I think it was one of his greatest.
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What a man, what a great American, what a true Patriot. This video only strengthens and deepens my hatred for the man obama!
"There are none so blind as those that refuse to see"
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
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.........ditto, t. j.!!!!....................... 
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He sure was!tjmurphy wrote:What a man, what a great American, what a true Patriot.
Too bad his son never amounted to anything, he would have been president by now
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I just got home from our monthly VFW meeting; we have one comrade who landed on D-Day - he was rightly the center of attention tonight. He is a nice old gentleman who doesn't want any fuss, but he was a helluva Soldier in his day. BB
Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club...Robert Ruark
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Ronald Reagan's The Boys Of Point Du Hoc, June 6th, 1984.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I[/youtube]
Thanks, Dimitri!
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Click the "youtube" button at the top of your "post a reply" page, then insert the address copied from the youtube video.RobesonsRme.com wrote:How do you guys post those videos?
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Doesn't always work.Miller Bro`s wrote:Click the "youtube" button at the top of your "post a reply" page, then insert the address copied from the youtube video.RobesonsRme.com wrote:How do you guys post those videos?
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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tjmurphy
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Jerry's right Dimitri, it doesn't always work. Sometimes you end up with an un-clickable link.
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God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
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I have yet to end up with a link that didn't work at all but I have run into several that didn't work with the YouTube feature. In those cases, I've just posted the URL and left it at that. One I was able to get to work by stripping off the "show other videos at the end" portion of the link but that was just one.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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I believe you, I would just like to see the link you posted and could not get it to workjerryd6818 wrote:I have run into several that didn't work with the YouTube feature. In those cases, I've just posted the URL and left it at that.
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