D-Day? Who Knew?

[E. Barry Bruyea]

Morning T.V. news, Radio news, no mention that this is the anniversary
of D-Day. Less important is talk about a guy who punched people for a
living, but that's all they wanted to talk about this morning. Damn,
what the hell is happening in this country. 14,000 young Canadians
whose average age was probably that of a High School Senior charged up
a beach facing machine guns and we just let it slide by but run on
about an individual who famous for having big mouth and could hit
hard. Shame!

[Eric©]

E. Barry Bruyea wrote...

While there are plenty of them from other countries, this seems to be the only relevant
story I can find on the Google news aggregator from a Canadian source:

'Jerry Amernic: Today is D-Day - You knew that, right?'
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/jerry-amernic-today-is-d-day-you-knew-that-
right

http://bit.ly/1Yb8F1e

[Dhu on Gate]

He was a brave man who stood up so other young Americans would not
be sent off to a war with all the prospects of a Stalingrad. Too
bad there were no men like him in Germany in the 1930s: they were
all murdered in trenches in WW1.

Dhu


--
Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise.
C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
http://babayaga.neotext.ca/PublicKeys/Duncan_Patton_a_Campbell_pubkey.txt

[Dave Smith]

It will be worse in a month or two when the media starts whining about
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They won't bother to mention that the Japanese
had been at war in China and Mongolia for a number of years before that
and it was trade sanctions attempting to force them to withdraw that led
to them going on the offense in the Pacific. It won't mention that int
he city of Nanking there were more civilians killed than in both the
atomic bombings combined. Rather than being incinerated in a flash that
lasted seconds, the Chinese civilians were systematically slaughtered,
and in the most barbaric means imaginable. Men were bound together with
wire, doused with gas and set on fire. The Japanese would line up
victims and have head chopping contests. Almost every female between the
age of 7 and 70 was raped and then usually murdered and had objects
shoved up their vaginas.

It should also be noted that the Italian Campaign had started almost a
full year earlier. Canadian troops had played a key role in that one,
chasing the Germans out of Sicily and then all the way up through Italy.
Our soldiers were in combat almost daily throughout that ordeal.

[E. Barry Bruyea]

The rumours of Obama apologizing to the Bomb, thankfully were false
and given that the Japanese have never apologized for starting their
part of WWII the crap would have hit the fan if he had.
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[Dave Smith]

On 2016-06-06 4:51 PM, E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 11:57:25 -0400, Dave Smith

>> It should also be noted that the Italian Campaign had started almost a
>> full year earlier. Canadian troops had played a key role in that one,
>> chasing the Germans out of Sicily and then all the way up through Italy.
>> Our soldiers were in combat almost daily throughout that ordeal.
>
> The rumours of Obama apologizing to the Bomb, thankfully were false
> and given that the Japanese have never apologized for starting their
> part of WWII the crap would have hit the fan if he had.

Japan is not likely to apologize for starting the war because for many,
many years it has white washed its version of events. It denied the
massacre in Nanking. Hell, it was only very recently that they
acknowledged the use of Korean "comfort women".

When I was a kid I had a friend whose father had been captured at Hong
Kong and spent the rest of the war in a Japanese POW camp. I heard some
first hand accounts about the atrocities committed against them, and he
said that the Japanese treated the Americans even worse.

Whether or not the atomic bombs were necessary to end the war may or may
not be worth debating. As far as I am concerned, the Americans have
nothing to be sorry for. Those bombs led to a quick end to a war in
which the Japanese had committed so many really horrendous atrocities.

[greg...@yahoo.ca]

It was estimated the Allies would suffer a million casualties in an
invasion of Nippon if they had not blasted Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Global National mentioned the D-Day anniversary at 2:30pm PST. Channel
21 mentioned it on a scroll earlier in the afternoon.

[Dave Smith]

These days there are revisionists who dispute that claim. FWIW, I am not
one of them. As far as I am concerned, given the the atrocities
committed by the Japanese in China, in the occupied territories and
their treatment of POWs, they could have nuked every city in Japan.

[greg...@yahoo.ca]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:03:08 -0400, Dave Smith

Despite the surrender of Nippon some soldiers of the empire fought on
with one fanatic fighting on into
1974.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

"The war has not necessarily gone to Japan's advantage"-Emperor
Hirohito.

[simplicity]

On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 8:57:21 AM UTC-6, E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
> Morning T.V. news, Radio news, no mention that this is the anniversary
> of D-Day. Less important is talk about a guy who punched people for a
> living, but that's all they wanted to talk about this morning.

You are so yesterday... Gorillas, boxers. That's what excites the media today. Not the guys who gave their lives for a cause.

[simplicity]

On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 9:52:59 AM UTC-6, Dhu on Gate wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:57:20 -0400, E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
>
> > Morning T.V. news, Radio news, no mention that this is the anniversary
> > of D-Day. Less important is talk about a guy who punched people for a
> > living, but that's all they wanted to talk about this morning. Damn,
> > what the hell is happening in this country. 14,000 young Canadians
> > whose average age was probably that of a High School Senior charged up
> > a beach facing machine guns and we just let it slide by but run on
> > about an individual who famous for having big mouth and could hit
> > hard. Shame!
>
> He was a brave man who stood up so other young Americans would not
> be sent off to a war with all the prospects of a Stalingrad.

Yeah? How many did he saved from that through his "stand"?

> Too
> bad there were no men like him in Germany in the 1930s: they were
> all murdered in trenches in WW1.

Murdered? You are one bloody idiot.

[greg...@yahoo.ca]

Besides channel 21 and Global National mentioning June 6, 1944 the
HNIC broadcast also paid reference to it. Ali refused to fight in
Vietnam and so did thousands of ppl who now reside in Canada. It was a
stupid war designed to prop up a dictatorship.

[simplicity]

I have no desire to turn this into a discussion on Vietnam war but, for clarity... Which dictatorship are you referring to: the one in the south or the one in the north?

[greg...@yahoo.ca]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT), simplicity

I'm no Hanoi Jane. The dictatorship in the north was just as bad as
the dictatorship in the South. No point in the Americans/South Koreans
and Australians being involved to prop up a series of dictatorships
just because the North was Communist. The only good Communist is a
dead one. Dictators should all end up like Mussolini and Khadafy.

[Alan Baker]

Actually, and for accuracy's sake only...

...the soldiers of WWII word a good bit older than high-schoolers.

[E. Barry Bruyea]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 20:09:41 -0700 (PDT), simplicity
<stella...@live.ca> wrote:

>On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 8:57:21 AM UTC-6, E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
>> Morning T.V. news, Radio news, no mention that this is the anniversary
>> of D-Day. Less important is talk about a guy who punched people for a
>> living, but that's all they wanted to talk about this morning.
>
>You are so yesterday... Gorillas, boxers. That's what excites the media today. Not the guys who gave their lives for a cause.

The only 'yesterday' for me is the fact that both my father and my
late wife's father were killed in WWII. Our educational system
ignores History as a matter of course, which is why we have a couple
of generations living under a blanket of ignorance.

>
>> Damn,
>> what the hell is happening in this country. 14,000 young Canadians
>> whose average age was probably that of a High School Senior charged up
>> a beach facing machine guns and we just let it slide by but run on
>> about an individual who famous for having big mouth and could hit
>> hard. Shame!
>
>

[E. Barry Bruyea]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT), simplicity

Vietnam wasted the lives of almost 60,000 young Americans. Defined in
pure terms, it was a War Crime. Canada didn't and shouldn't have
participated in the War in Vietnam. It was bad enough that we served
on a 'Armistice Commission' that was a paper tiger.

[Dave Smith]

It could have all been avoided. Perhaps the big mistake was handing
Vietnam back to France after the Japanese were booted out. If they had
to do that, then it could have been avoided if the US had honoured
France's request for air strikes at Dien Bien Phu. Then, when there was
a truce in the civil war, they could have honoured the pledge for a
plebiscite. The US pushed for a free and democratic vote by the people
of Vietnam on reunification. They had assumed that the people would vote
to reject the communist North. When it became apparent that the people
who vote in favour of reunification the US supported the regime of the
South in their refusal to hold the vote.

[Dhu on Gate]

On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:14:36 -0700, simplicity wrote:

> On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 9:52:59 AM UTC-6, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:57:20 -0400, E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
>>
>> > Morning T.V. news, Radio news, no mention that this is the anniversary
>> > of D-Day. Less important is talk about a guy who punched people for a
>> > living, but that's all they wanted to talk about this morning. Damn,
>> > what the hell is happening in this country. 14,000 young Canadians
>> > whose average age was probably that of a High School Senior charged up
>> > a beach facing machine guns and we just let it slide by but run on
>> > about an individual who famous for having big mouth and could hit
>> > hard. Shame!
>>
>> He was a brave man who stood up so other young Americans would not
>> be sent off to a war with all the prospects of a Stalingrad.
>
> Yeah? How many did he saved from that through his "stand"?

Given what happened on the Volga was a little more extreme,
only a half mil or so ;)

>
>> Too
>> bad there were no men like him in Germany in the 1930s: they were
>> all murdered in trenches in WW1.
>
> Murdered? You are one bloody idiot.

No. Murder is murder and it _will_ out. My great uncle Charlie made good coin
in that war. They hired him to murder German officers. Ten guineas (gold)
was his "commission" for a Leutnant.

[simplicity]

On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 6:52:24 AM UTC-6, Dhu on Gate wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:14:36 -0700, simplicity wrote:
>
> > On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 9:52:59 AM UTC-6, Dhu on Gate wrote:
> >> On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:57:20 -0400, E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
> >>
> >> > Morning T.V. news, Radio news, no mention that this is the anniversary
> >> > of D-Day. Less important is talk about a guy who punched people for a
> >> > living, but that's all they wanted to talk about this morning. Damn,
> >> > what the hell is happening in this country. 14,000 young Canadians
> >> > whose average age was probably that of a High School Senior charged up
> >> > a beach facing machine guns and we just let it slide by but run on
> >> > about an individual who famous for having big mouth and could hit
> >> > hard. Shame!
> >>
> >> He was a brave man who stood up so other young Americans would not
> >> be sent off to a war with all the prospects of a Stalingrad.
> >
> > Yeah? How many did he saved from that through his "stand"?
>
> Given what happened on the Volga was a little more extreme,
> only a half mil or so ;)

So, you claim that Ali's "principled stand" save some "half mil or so" American lives?

I believe your argument to support this will be as idiotic as the claim itself.

>
> >
> >> Too
> >> bad there were no men like him in Germany in the 1930s: they were
> >> all murdered in trenches in WW1.
> >
> > Murdered? You are one bloody idiot.
>
> No. Murder is murder and it _will_ out. My great uncle Charlie made good coin
> in that war. They hired him to murder German officers. Ten guineas (gold)
> was his "commission" for a Leutnant.

First, it was a war. W-A-R. Any clue what that means?

Second, these are YOUR words: "murdered in trenches".

Third, try to gather these BS "stories" about your great uncle into a book. Get the eye-catching title, perhaps "Creations of one Sick Mind". And then try to find a publisher. Good luck!!