The Patriotic Picture Thread!

[Trigger Time]

It's always very moving to see how the youngest generations are taugh about the sacrifice those soldiers have made.

I will do my best to share pictures.There should be a lot of events all across Normandy.Just the D-Day beaches and the Normandy American Cemetery (where the above picture was taken) will be a closed off.
Also a city near by where heads of state will stay.
I'm glad I toured those sites last year.

I hope you get to visit all you want to this time. You always take the best pictures!
I tried to take a bunch of good photos at pearl harbor both days I went but they are just with my phone, so nothing great. I think the most important part is never forgetting the sacrifices those men made at these sacred places and remembering that these battlefields are graveyards in themselves. Many of the fallen still are there.

 

[Sylvain]

I hope you get to visit all you want to this time. You always take the best pictures!
I tried to take a bunch of good photos at pearl harbor both days I went but they are just with my phone, so nothing great. I think the most important part is never forgetting the sacrifices those men made at these sacred places and remembering that these battlefields are graveyards in themselves. Many of the fallen still are there.

Thanks TT.
I saw the Pearl Harbor pictures, I would like to visit the place someday.
Even if I don't get to go to some of the events I will still visit local WW2 graves and go to the beach.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

There's pictures in the story, and this IS patriotic.

A 94 year old WWII vet is going to jump once again over Normandy to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the D Day landings.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...JvA4ut7y9UOHGqvRAcRruW5_A766CP-M_0gxvXAvfNW8U

 

[2A_Tom]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[actaeon277]

 

[semperfi211]

 

[BugI02]

[video=youtube;U-Y0SMitMpk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Y0SMitMpk[/video]

 

[churchmouse]

[video=youtube;U-Y0SMitMpk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Y0SMitMpk[/video]

Link will not work.....

 

[actaeon277]

Link will not work.....

If you click on play, it tells you it' can't be played on "another platform".
You have to click on the link to go to Youtube.

Basically, it's an excerpt from the song "Daylight Again".

 

[Sylvain]

D-Day is getting close, US flags are starting to show up.

 

[BugI02]

If you click on play, it tells you it' can't be played on "another platform".
You have to click on the link to go to Youtube.

Basically, it's an excerpt from the song "Daylight Again".

Yeah, sorry CM - that used to not be limited to Youtube playback. It's a beautiful harmony with David Gilmour

That lyric always gets to me around Memorial Day

"Find the cost of freedom
Buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down"

Edit: If you're on a computer The 'Watch this video on youtube' line under Video Unavailable! is a hot link that will bring it up in another window (which will link to youtube)

 

[snorko]

In town for the D-Day anniversary.

 

[actaeon277]

Yeah, sorry CM - that used to not be limited to Youtube playback. It's a beautiful harmony with David Gilmour

That lyric always gets to me around Memorial Day

"Find the cost of freedom
Buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down"

Edit: If you're on a computer The 'Watch this video on youtube' line under Video Unavailable! is a hot link that will bring it up in another window (which will link to youtube)

Also from the song "Daylight Again" (which that excerpt is from)
All the brave soldiers that cannot get older
Been asking after you


"Soldiers that cannot get older", are the dead.

 

[Trigger Time]

D-Day is getting close, US flags are starting to show up.

Thats awesome.

 

[Trigger Time]

I get more Freedom goosebumps standing on the track every year pre-Indy 500 than most anywhere else nowadays. I try to always get a picture of the pagoda and scoring tower with the flyover.
This year as active duty servicemembers rolled down pit lane in chevy pickup trucks around 50,000 fans along the straightaway stands erupted in a "USA, USA, USA" chant. I dont think ive ever felt more proud to be American or felt that all hope is not lost and that it was all worth it and gave me more strength to push on than in that moment. So if you were one of those people that day chanting "USA" thank you, you touched this Patriots heart.

 

[Thor]

Neat, looks like a War Hog, Viper and two Mustangs.

Could you year the sweet song of the Merlin's over the turbo-fans?

 

[Trigger Time]

Modern Day U.S. Army RANGERS from the 75th RANGER Regiment climb the Cliffs at Pointe du Hoc in honor of the RANGERS who did it on D-DAY. RLTW!

 

[Sylvain]

Modern Day U.S. Army RANGERS from the 75th RANGER Regiment climb the Cliffs at Pointe du Hoc in honor of the RANGERS who did it on D-DAY. RLTW!

I was just posting some pics of the event ...

That's some epic stuff.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...anniversary-d-day-battle-normandy-2019-a.html