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Captain Harry S. Truman (1918)
During the First World War, Truman commanded D Battery in the 129th Field Artillery Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. He is most known for his role as the 33rd President of the United States.
80 years ago on June 6, 1944, D-day began.
Wounded soldiers of the U.S. 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division on a smoke break after capturing Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Drawn in 2021.
Easy Company
Bang bang
I hit the ground.
He lighted his cigarette and looked at me.
“Ya want sum?” he said to me. I nodded and he leisurely passed it to me.
I sighed as I smoked it. “I’ve never felt like this before.” I said.
“How so?”
“Seasons change you know? I change. I’m not the same. I never thought I’d start smoking cigarettes.”
He looked at me and took the cigarette outta my hand. “What do you mean exactly?”
Staring at the parking lot, I explained: “You know that I did weed and that shit but never nicotine. My father did it all the fucking time. Man was so crazy for it that whenever we’d tell him to quit smoking he would make empty promises. Hated him for that. Lied to us for all his life. And that’s how it brought me to hate nicotine.” looking back at him, I see him already staring at me. “Now, I smoke it once in a while. Should I be ashamed?”
He got a long hit and then answered: “Nah, doll. Look. When I was five, I used to stay at my pops and I knew that he always had a gun somewhere hidden in the house. Every Sunday I’d hear bangs coming from the backyard. In the morning I’d see dry blood in the yard. This went on for three years. None stop. And I never questioned my father’s decisions. But oh, how did I hate him for making them. Guess we all went through sumthin that traumatized us.”
I stared at him and hesitantly asked him “Do you still hear the bangs?”
He sadly smirked and looked up to the sky while responding to me with: “I hear Bang Bang every Sunday night. And I wake up scared to find dried blood in the backyard.”
I curiously asked: “Didn’t you even have the urge to ask him why he did that?”
“Of course I did, doll. I knew I’d get a beating because of it so I shut my mouth, forced my eyes closed and pushed myself to sleep with the bangs.”
I slowly slid to him and hugged him tightly. “I’m so sorry, Wood. Why did you have to go through all that at such a young age?”
“One of us should suffer in this life babe. And God said it was my turn. Gotta accept it doll. Now don’t get sad because of me” He tilted his head down to take a look at me and he saw the tears that were shedding from my eyes. I sadly looked back at him and said: “You’re my baby boy. I love you. With my whole heart.”
“I love you Doll.”
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fivver commission
K-9 unit
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Thank you, teammate
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Poor guy fell off the roof
Today, U.S. Air Force serviceman, Aaron Bushnell, 25, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington:
"I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
His last words were “Free Palestine”.
I used to work with/for a Vietnam veteran Huey pilot (probably quite unusual given I’m a Brit). Never really talked about it (except a passing comment when drunk for humorous effect).
But as part of his counselling he wrote about it in an autobiographical novel, telling about flying into shitstorms and flying out with the dead and dying, being shot down in Laos, being briefly captured and extremely brutally treated by his captors, escaping, killing his captors in their sleep and eventually being recovered only to be discarded by the army brass (and being given a bill for his convalescence accommodation). And after all that crap from the enemy and his own side, he still emerged as a good guy despite the physical and mental damage suffered. I hope they still make them like him.
March 29th is National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
On March 29, 1973, the last remaining American troops withdrew from Vietnam, and President Nixon declared “the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come.”
Today we honor and remember all of the brave men and women who served during the Vietnam War, as well as their families who also sacrificed so much. Let us give these veterans the long overdue recognition and welcome home they deserve!
Army returns remains of 9 Indigenous children who died at boarding school over a century ago
The remains of nine more Native American children who died at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania over a century ago have been disinterred from a small Army cemetery and returned to families
via ABC News App
They should've never been taken from their families to begin with .
(via "Positive Army Quote It Takes A Special Person To Be A Soldier" Graphic T-Shirt for Sale by TheArtOfPat)
A motivational statement emphasizing the extraordinary character of those who choose the path of a soldier, showcasing valor.
My Muslim brothers and sisters, I wish all of us to have a good Eid-al-Adha, I missed my holiday sweets so much, I will continue to pray for them, if you are a Muslim army, let's pray for them, our prayers will protect them, once again good, blessed holidays 💜🛐😚
Fort Taylor, Key West
This was another place I visited while in Key West with my family. It was a magnificent old fort. Much of it was buried over the years thanks to various expansion projects, and several old cannons were used as rebar!
But, much of it has been dug out and sympathetically restored, revealing the beautiful brickwork and former gun ports. As you can see, they've got several of the old cannons and guns on display!
The fort was in use from the mid-19th century, right up until after WWII. Now that's some history for you!