tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post4417798940946003237..comments2023-10-11T07:35:31.358-07:00Comments on Knights of Creativity Spirit & Ale: "D" Day: Gone and Almost ForgottendkWellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post-34409101141885602082009-06-06T10:39:25.963-07:002009-06-06T10:39:25.963-07:00an excellent post, Sir HookI believe if I start li...an excellent post, Sir Hook<br><br>I believe if I start listing the days/times/choices that have shaped my life I might have to go to another alphabet - many more than 26 -<br><br>Lady S, who believes that<br>Fear is Courage that has said its Prayers<br><br><br>so glad that Lady Maegan will be our bartender from now on...Lady Suzanne of Greenbriarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17715427827385897484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post-20070853141054349672009-06-06T11:00:49.902-07:002009-06-06T11:00:49.902-07:00..as my father is fond of saying...especially as h.....as my father is fond of saying...especially as he was being fired at in the dark. as aircrew gunner.. over the DZ..that dawn... "when a nation is actively trying to invade your homeland or to kill your wife and family, it brings out the killer in you no matter what your religion says... we were so into it nobodys life mattered anymore.<br><br>On that Iconic Photo... they had an interview with that GI last night.He was the only one to make it out of the landing craft...as a shell came over just after the pic was taken and blew it all up with the troopers on.. <br><br>Thats as far up the beach he got..as he took four shells in the shoulder and one in his leg, and that was that.<br><br>I think Spielbergs take on it is one of the finest 22minute memorials to those guys ever filmed. Tho i do take my hat off to Capra who took that photo on Omaha beach.... he was sat there in that hail of gunfire with just a camera... he shot 37 rolls of film during that fateful landing... and when he got back to the darkroom an accidental fire destroyed all but 8 of the frames of which that one went world wide.<br><br> I wonder how pissed he was after the fire was out.<br><br>Sir Dayvd ( the son of a gun ) of oxfordshireAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post-63187724221358542682009-06-08T07:36:52.433-07:002009-06-08T07:36:52.433-07:00Excellent post, Sir Hook.It important to NEVER for...Excellent post, Sir Hook.<br>It important to NEVER forget such events as often quoted, paraphrased, and rarely lived:<br><br>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<br><br>Sir BowieSir Bowie of Greenbriar (a.k.a. David A. Kuhn)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11885858294354724520noreply@blogger.com