Catholic chaplain worships with American soldiers and sailors destined to fight on D-Day ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Catholic chaplain worships with American soldiers and sailors destined to fight on D-Day at Omaha Beach, this week 1944: #NARA

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[murielm99]

1. I am just waiting for more people to mock this and

make snide comments about faith and prayer.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Give them a chance to wake up. It's not even 7:00 a.m. yet. NT

[The Jungle 1]

10. You think they slept last night?

[Siwsan]

3. No doubt those men took great comfort in receiving that blessing

It was, after all, not so much about preparing them to go into battle, as it was preparing them to not return from that battle.

My interpretation, anyway.

[11 Bravo]

26. If that's the morning of 6/6, then the odds are that many of those men never saw another sunrise.

[KS Toronado]

4. A period of history when faith & prayer was more relevant than today.

6/6/1944

[murielm99]

5. Clearly, it is still relevant

to some on this website.

[pazzyanne]

20. Amen! nt

[3Hotdogs]

6. It's not about others believing in things that can't be real.

Astrology, witchcraft, Juju or whatever..... go for it.

It's when the believers use their nonsense as a basis to run everybody else's life.

My father was on Iwo Jima. He probably was comforted by a member of clergy before the landing and I hope he did get some comfort from that.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

12. 👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽 THIS!

[DFW]

7. I know it was for a good cause and all, but...

I still hate to think how many of those guys weren't alive a week later.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Or a day later.

Americans about to fight on D-Day, this week 1944. Sgt. Sandy Martin [top left] died on Omaha Beach and is buried there. #NARA

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[3Hotdogs]

15. Over 5,000.

[Maxheader]

8. Poor guys got beat up pretty bad at Omaha...

Believe the landing craft got off position.


"But very little went as planned. Difficulties in navigation caused most of the landing craft to miss their targets throughout the day."...wiki

Dad was a hospital admin.. in New Guinea. Uncle (infantry) hitting various islands.

He won't talk about it. Just gave me a Japanese bayonet, and that was enough...

[paleotn]

23. Few things ever go to plan...

Things begin to unravel by at least first contact with opposition, and usually before that. At that point, what matters is the training and metal of the guys on the ground. D-Day proved the rule. Little went to plan other than it got American and British troops into France. From there it was up to the guys on the ground.

Dad arrived a few days after the landing and his first taste of combat was the hedgerows. The Norman bocage. Contrary to popular myth, planners knew about the hedgerows and that they would slow things down. What they didn't know was how God awful thick and tall they were. Dad and his fellow GIs trained for them in the English countryside. But English hedgerows are nothing compared to Norman. Dad said they were so thick a jackrabbit had trouble getting through. Tanks couldn't penetrate them in most cases. The roads and paths were sunken from centuries of use, creating ready built trenches. Perfect defensive positions that devolved things down to small unit actions, not terribly unlike Vietnam. The worst was crossing the fields. Dad said you just ran like hell. It was all you could do. Finally 8th Air Force bombed the shit out of a corridor so American units could pour through. But some bombs fell short killing our own guys. Plans rarely go too plan.

[catbyte]

11. ...

[paleotn]

21. Precisely.

[SheltieLover]

22. +1,000!

[murielm99]

24. And just look at some of those faces.

They were babies. Barely out of their teens!

[panader0]

13. Both of my uncles participated in the D-Day landings. Both survived it unhurt.

One later lost his right leg from the knee down at the Battle of the Bulge.

[Boydog]

14. If we turn our backs on prayer we are lost

[3Hotdogs]

16. What should we pray for?

I remember in church, '50s. Praying that God would kick commie asses... smite them all.

Now, they pray that God will smite gay asses (no pun inte -- all right, I admit it) and punish them for their behavior.

[Boydog]

19. Pray for strength wisdom and safety.

If some people have a twisted perverted brand of religion that’s between them and God. Doesn’t stop me from practicing mine.

[LanternWaste]

25. Pray for what you want.

No one is instructing you otherwise.

C'mon... let's try to support post #6 instead of disproving it.

[The Jungle 1]

17. A large gathering of ANTIFA

My dad was putting on his parachute and climbing into a C47 cigar tube. They had on 90 to 120 pounds of equipment. They were jumping behind enemy lines. If the men on the beach failed?

PFC
Headquarters Company
First Battalion
Parachute Regiment
82 Airborne Division