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That's a movie worth watching a few times.

 

BTW, a D-Day vet wrote, to my surprise, that the landing was, "60 times worse than Saving Private Ryan." The video I posted on D-Day really makes you see how bad it was.

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That's a movie worth watching a few times.

 

BTW, a D-Day vet wrote, to my surprise, that the landing was, "60 times worse than Saving Private Ryan." The video I posted on D-Day really makes you see how bad it was.

 

During my first stunt at the Post Office nearly the entire workforce were either WW2 or Korea Vets. Of the apx 125 of co-workers at my sub-station only one was there for D-Day. He was a Marine stationed on either a Destroyer or Cruiser. He only came ashore to escort German prisoners and was never in any ground combat. He never went into any details except to say something about the large number of bodies on the beach.

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Friend of mine was a Radio Operator on one of the landing ships.

 

Regarding The Patriot, you wonder what Mel Gibson has against the British. Good movie, but it's kinda Braveheart a few hundred years later.

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Friend of mine was a Radio Operator on one of the landing ships.

 

Regarding The Patriot, you wonder what Mel Gibson has against the British. Good movie, but it's kinda Braveheart a few hundred years later.

 

Demonstrates Gibson's ability to make a buck. He couldn't do a sequel to Bravehart so he opted for the next best, another war. I really enjoyed both movies. I was some what surprised that Hollywood actually glorified and didn't down play the role of the militia and armed citizen soldier in the Patriot.

 

Karl can probably chime in with some expertise. It is my understanding that members of the militia fought for just a written promise of a parcel of land. If I remember my history right in the post revolution era. One had to be a land owner to

earn the privilege to vote.

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Arkansas was originally settled with veterans of the War of 1812, which was technically the end of the Revolutionary War. The new U.S. government owed them money and basically said "We'll give you nothing now and call it even, or you can have some land in 'Arkansas.'"

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I have a book of one of my ancestors, "Jacob Hutchins of Athol" (MA). Interesting book. He was a late teen who joined the militia. He fought at Bunker Hill and Saratoga, then good measles, went home, and never went back. He bought met a girl on an island on the river between the US and Canada. The Brits gave land to those who fought against us. She was the daughter of an English Sergeant Major who also fought at Saratoga! Weird, huh? Bet they had a conversation or two. Anyway, there's a copy of a deed of land to Jacob in the 1800s for land in Ohio based on his military service. I can't remember if he got any stipend.

 

No relatives I know of in any other war up to Vietnam. Guess they needed farmers, rather than older guys for soldiers.

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Last time I tried to watch that movie, I got so pissed off at the British soldiers that I had to quit watching. That is an incredible movie.

Unfortunately the sacrifices of those brave heroes is being nulified by the stroke of a pen.

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Arkansas was originally settled with veterans of the War of 1812, which was technically the end of the Revolutionary War. The new U.S. government owed them money and basically said "We'll give you nothing now and call it even, or you can have some land in 'Arkansas.'"

 

Guess the govt was following Horace Greely's advice. A smart move on the US govt's part to get as many English speaking citizens in the area to prevent either Spain and France from making a claim to Arkansas.

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