Show Your Thanks to World War II Vets by Watching This 2-min Video

"WW II Veterans Documentary"

"They are trying to get 50,000 views before Memorial Day. .-- Monday, May 31st, 2011

It would really help out if you watched it in full, and spread it around to other folks who would enjoy it.

Working on this has been a very emotional experience, because the story is so, so powerful. I think you'll agree."

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There are fewer and fewer left everyday.

My Father died last year and he was in the younger age group.

I had to do a paper. I chose the death camps. I don't need a visual to know why our soldiers were there or how they died. This was 28 years ago, and it stays with me.

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my mind for decades. When I was a little kid it was really a shock to me when I realized how absolutely horrible people can be to each other. I still have trouble wrapping my head around war and violence today.

We also watched the Deer Hunter in that same class.

It's even more pathetic that I have to teach my kid these things because I don't believe he will be exposed to these atrocities in his history class. Of course, he's only 10. But, my goodness, how things have changed in 30 years.

Thanks. k/r

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I have a 94 year old friend who hit Omaha Beach on D-Day and drove a half-track across France and Germany. He'll love to see this.

95 years old. Army veteran, Utah beach June 1944, captured Luxembourg October 1944, Prisoner Of War until Spring 1945.

He doesn't think he "deserves" to go because he wound up in India for a good chunk of the war and never saw combat. We've pointed that he had no choice about where the Army sent him and are now trying the argument that he has to go for vets like my dad who didn't live long enough to see the memorial built.

whom i never met, but served in the European Theater under Gen. Patton. Thank you.

We were/are a very patriotic family.
Thanks for the vid and it's a great action.
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Very moving
Thanks

...She is 93 and in a wheelchair. Last time we were in D.C. (last winter) we drove past the WWII Memorial. Too cold to get out with the chair etc. that day, so we'll have to come back.

My dad served under Patton in Europe, but in many ways what my mom did during the war meant as much or more. She was a teacher during those years and had her kids collecting milkweed for life vests (called "Mae Wests" at the time.) The kids also wove squares with yarn on a small loom then sewed the squares together to make blankets to send to the soldiers. As an Air Raid Warden she had to learn first aid, then go house to house during bomb drills and make sure all lights were out. If we had actually been bombed, she would have been out on the street doing the same.

We should always remember that not only the military vets helped win WWII. A whole generation at home worked like my mother, or worked the factories etc. that made the goods that made the war effort possible.

He was crane operator, a very skilled job.

By 1943 there were enough women working in the defense plants so he could go into the Navy.

You are right, the people at home were important also.

There was a defense plant down the stree from where I live now.

276th Combat Engineer Battalion, Distinguished Unit Citation, Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany.

I miss you, Pop.

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I clicked on it just because I wanted them to get the 50,000 views. But it was indeed powerful.

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My dad is a WWII vet and I don't think he knows about this, but he will now. Very moving clip, and I can't wait to see the film. #2958819.