hackey lad Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Macron and Biden handing out medals to 90+ year olds . Should have happened many years ago . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Bundy Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Must admit, I didn't really know as much as I should about the D Day landings so I've spent the last hour reading up about it. It was quite something, it really was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattricia Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 When you go home Tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow We gave our today. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltman Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 30 minutes ago, pattricia said: When you go home Tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow We gave our today. Thank you Pattricia, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Commander Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 It's the Legion d'honneur medal that is being given to the surviving veterans. It's the highest French distinction. They already have other medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crookesey Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 One of the old boys was being interviewed and said that there are no heroes visiting the landing beaches, he then qualified his statement by saying that all the heroes never left the beaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echo beach Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, pattricia said: When you go home Tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow We gave our today. Profound and poignant words by John Maxwell Edmonds, a Cambridge classicist turned code breaker, 1875-1958. echo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauxwell Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 We have got a thread in the History section, D Day 80th Anniversary I think SheffieldForum should movie it to the General Section or vice versa and combine it as one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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