Happy VE Day drinking thread
Fuck Hitler
My grandpa lied about his age, too. But he had to make himself younger. You could be a pilot if you were over 26, so he had forge his drivers license to make him 4 years younger.
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Might have to watch Band of Brothers again...
Do we have any MGoVeterans of the Second World War on the board? A toast and much thanks to them and all the others who did their part.
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Yeah. My grandpa was too young for WW2, he was in the Army during Korea, but stateside...think he was a quartermaster or something. He's nearly 90.
Really neat to hear veterans talk at the beginning of those Band of Brothers episodes and programs like that. What a different world at the time.
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Drinking Gnarleywine and some blueberry mead from some Michigan meadery that I don't know the name of.
he ever got drunk. he was a P-51 pilot. as i write this, there is a picture behind me of him getting into his plane, parachute and all. God bless those brave, brave people who fought for freedom and defeated the essence of evil on earth. the greatest generation. miss him, and that generation, too.
like your dad and my dad, and of course some of the ladies (some crazy WW II stuff about them) too. you're on for the beer though, but only if i get to buy the second round.
Regardless of the Nazis evil they did not possess the navy to sail 3,000 miles to invade our shores. They could not even invade England! The Nazis were never an existential threat to us. For that matter, neither was Japan. The US was bigger demographically, weathlier, and possess far more industrial capability than either.
They could not assume that would stay that way at the time. A Nazi-controlled Europe with unchecked power would have certainly become an existential threat to the USA over time.
There are lots of histories we could safely re-write from the comfort of our sofas in 2015, but WWII is not one of them.
I wasn't talking about future possibilities.
The Nazis were working pretty hard on developing nukes, too. We just got there first. Considering the percentage of our population that lived on the East Coast and in New England back then, they were close to having the wherewithal to do a lot of damage here. Obviously, I'm glad they weren't able to. We still owe a huge debt to those who fought in WWII.
early on in the war. The Allies were shocked to find how far behind the Germans were at that point they were able to access their nuclear facilities towards the end of the war. They were, in, fact, not close at all. They didn't have ICBMs or aircraft carriers(or much of a bluewater navy). The only means they had to attack us was with submarines.
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ones who crushed the Nazi war machine. The Western fought hard and bravely but it was the Russians who did the heavy lifting. They fought 200 German divisions versus 60 in the West. They also went up against most of the best divisions the Germans had.
Raise a vodka to the Russkies because no other nation suffered (27,000,000 dead) or did as much to defeat the Nazis as the Russians.
10,000+ people died . . . every single day for five years.
You know, Walter, I myself dabbled in communism once. Not in the USSR, of course.
That number is strictly pertaining to the deaths caused by the Nazis.
True. The US also helped out Russia and Britain a ton with materials. The Russians were driving Fords around everywhere.
He should still thank the US. Without us Western Europe would have been in the Soviet Bloc as well. The Russians weren't stopping. JMO.
The Germans lost because they were overwhelmed by the Russians. Yes, thank the Russians. They lost much more than anyone else by a huge margin. So yes, thank the Russians. They were a huge part of why the Nazis were defeated.
Did he ask you if you were a subject of Queen Elizabeth, and when you said no did he say "yeah, you're welcome"?
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cornwallis-surrenders-at-yorktown
Happy VE day! Enjoy some World War II aircraft photos!
Wow this makes me want to watch Band of Brothers all over again.
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was the QB at state (yts) where my dad ended up attending after the war. the friend always used to lament that dad got to fly fighters, while glenn flew the B-24. he said he was 'just a damned truck driver!' i think my father was training to fly the B-29 when they discharged him (and a million others).
They did do their duty as expected, England.
And they did it all while wearing ties.
Its also my Birthday! Raise a toast to CoverZero!
Other famous people born on May 8th:
President Harry S. Truman (Germans surrendered on his B Day. Cool)
Drummer extraodinaire....Alex Van Halen
Singer....Enrique Iglesias
50s teen hearthrob.....Ricky Nelson
Former Heavyweight champ turned Ali victim.....Sonny Liston
Jazz Keyboard wiz....Keith Jarrett
The Captain's former better half....Toni Tennille
America's favorite Funny Man....Don Rickles
WW2 vets are my heroes, and I say that with 100% honesty. Cherish the time with those left.
Thanks to my grandpa who was in Normandy, long since passed.
Greatest Generation by a mile...we owe much more than this post can recite to these brave men and women who would NEVER think of themselves in that manner.
was interacting with the vets. The WWII vets were always pleased when I could talk somewhat knowledgeably about the campaigns/battles they participated in.
God bless.
Raised my glass of WhistlePig.
Never gets celebrated like it use to be in the past. I asked the 20 somethings in my office if they knew what Today was and all I got were blank stares!
WWII veterans along with all the other men and women helping in the war effort were the greatest generation. My Grandfather was too old to fight ( in his 40s) but was building tanks at Fisher Body during WWII.
We had a nice Dolcetto with Dinner from Bounchristiani winery in Napa!
Both of my grandfathers served and came back. Very lucky. One lost a brother and the other a best friend that volunteered to take my grandfather's shift in a plane that never came back. He was the radio man. I just learned of his friend that didn't come back a few yrs ago, after my gf's death my grandmother told me the story, and haven't been able to find his friends' family because I want to share that story.
Dantonio-Russian
Meyer-Hitler
In all seriousness if you are a WWII geek like me read the book, "The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War".