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soupsandwich
Joined: 20 May 2011
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 Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:13 pm Post subject: June 6 |
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Noboby cared to mention anything about June 6, 1944 eh?
You guys stay classy.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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June 6th, the day America finally decided to stop dying in moderate numbers after the Soviets had been sending hundreds of thousands to die for the last 3 years.
D-Day was a remarkable feat and our soldiers were heroes and Hitler was bad and all that, but seriously we need to get over ourselves. What am I supposed to do, thank a veteran? Fine, I'll thank a Chinese or a Soviet one because it was they who did the bulk of the dying. Heck, I'd even take one of Churchill's "few" over us.
How a nation that got to just sit around and build a bunch of stuff thanks to it being unmolested due to the Atlantic and Pacific can brag about its war record is beyond me. |
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soupsandwich
Joined: 20 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| June 6th, the day America finally decided to stop dying in moderate numbers after the Soviets had been sending hundreds of thousands to die for the last 3 years. |
Dammed if we do..dammed if we don't.
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| D-Day was a remarkable feat and our soldiers were heroes and Hitler was bad and all that, but seriously we need to get over ourselves. What am I supposed to do, thank a veteran? Fine, I'll thank a Chinese or a Soviet one because it was they who did the bulk of the dying. Heck, I'd even take one of Churchill's "few" over us. |
Well, if that is where your heart is...than go be your true self.
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| How a nation that got to just sit around and build a bunch of stuff thanks to it being unmolested due to the Atlantic and Pacific can brag about its war record is beyond me. |
How anyone could simply assume that D-Day revolves around American soldiers is beyond me. OH...and America was already engaged in a different war in the Pacific...in case you didn't know.
So, are you saying that it was only American forces on that day? Do I understand you correctly? Do you need a history lesson?
British
French
Australian
New Zealand
Belgium
Netherlands
Dutch (?)
Candian
All of those countries sent in troops...not just Americans.
Perhaps it is YOU who needs to get over yourself?
People died to free Eurpoe that day.
Shame on you for being an ass....but hey, this is Dave's.....
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Shame on you for being an ass....but hey, this is Dave's.....
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Stay classy. |
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Patrick Bateman
Joined: 21 Apr 2009
Location: Lost in Translation
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: June 6 |
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| soupsandwich wrote: |
Noboby cared to mention anything about June 6, 1944 eh?
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You have a very broad conception of "Current Events."
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June 6th, the day America finally decided to stop dying in moderate numbers after the Soviets had been sending hundreds of thousands to die for the last 3 years. |
I don't think that that's a fair portrait of the situation.
I'd say it was (much) more on the British than the Americans. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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I'm Canadian. We celebrate (remember?) November 11th: the day world war 1 ended.
Here it's pepero day.
Stay classy Korea. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| How anyone could simply assume that D-Day revolves around American soldiers is beyond me. OH...and America was already engaged in a different war in the Pacific...in case you didn't know. |
Well first off, considering your posting history on the U.S. military, and the lordly tone your original post was taking, which is something only Americans do (I never hear any of this coming from Brits or Canucks), yes I assumed so.
Same thing as Pearl Harbor, the day Americans finally decided to join the Chinese in the dying.
Why not a post on the CE forum commemorating a Soviet or Chinese battle in WWII? Or the Poles?
American Deaths- 418,000
Chinese Deaths- 10-20 million
Soviet Deaths- 23 Million
Polish Deaths- 5.6 million 16% of the population.
But yes, let's carry on and on about D-Day.
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| So, are you saying that it was only American forces on that day? Do I understand you correctly? Do you need a history lesson? |
No I don't. But the only ones who make a big deal about it are the Americans. Saving Private Ryan was great, Band of Brothers was a great book and a fine TV series, but good grief get over it.
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| People died to free Eurpoe that day. |
Yeah, so the way to celebrate that is to go on Dave's. Right.
And dude, a lot of people died on a lot of days in that war. Many died in quite nastier situations than D-Day.
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| Shame on you for being an ass....but hey, this is Dave's..... |
You were the one who got preachy. Suggesting that we were all failure's for not saluting D-Day on Dave's ESL Cafe (during Korean Memorial Day, no less).
I firmly believe that military days and battles and whatnot are primarily to be commemorated and talked about by the men who fought in them. They don't want to have us bow down ("I just did what was right...Hey, I lived...etc"). It's something for them to talk about with their comrades. Those who weren't there don't understand. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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You think those figues are bad?
Just wait till the next war  |
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shifter2009
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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| How anyone could simply assume that D-Day revolves around American soldiers is beyond me. OH...and America was already engaged in a different war in the Pacific...in case you didn't know. |
Well first off, considering your posting history on the U.S. military, and the lordly tone your original post was taking, which is something only Americans do (I never hear any of this coming from Brits or Canucks), yes I assumed so.
Same thing as Pearl Harbor, the day Americans finally decided to join the Chinese in the dying.
Why not a post on the CE forum commemorating a Soviet or Chinese battle in WWII? Or the Poles?
American Deaths- 418,000
Chinese Deaths- 10-20 million
Soviet Deaths- 23 Million
Polish Deaths- 5.6 million 16% of the population.
But yes, let's carry on and on about D-Day.
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| So, are you saying that it was only American forces on that day? Do I understand you correctly? Do you need a history lesson? |
No I don't. But the only ones who make a big deal about it are the Americans. Saving Private Ryan was great, Band of Brothers was a great book and a fine TV series, but good grief get over it.
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| People died to free Eurpoe that day. |
Yeah, so the way to celebrate that is to go on Dave's. Right.
And dude, a lot of people died on a lot of days in that war. Many died in quite nastier situations than D-Day.
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| Shame on you for being an ass....but hey, this is Dave's..... |
You were the one who got preachy. Suggesting that we were all failure's for not saluting D-Day on Dave's ESL Cafe (during Korean Memorial Day, no less).
I firmly believe that military days and battles and whatnot are primarily to be commemorated and talked about by the men who fought in them. They don't want to have us bow down ("I just did what was right...Hey, I lived...etc"). It's something for them to talk about with their comrades. Those who weren't there don't understand. |
So deaths are the top contribution to a war effort? |
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