Every parachute hook was still locked. When the crash site near Beuzeville-au-Plain was excavated, that one detail proved none of the men had got out. This is where Easy Company lost its commander before the company fired a shot.
On the night of 5-6 June 1944 a C-47 carrying First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III and the entire company headquarters group was hit by flak and came down here, north-east of Sainte-Mère-Église.
All twenty-two aboard died, and command of Easy Company passed to Lieutenant Richard Winters. A recovered watch had stopped at 01:12, the moment of the crash.
June 5, 1944 —
“Tonight is the night of nights.
Tomorrow throughout the whole of our homeland and the Allied world the bells will ring out the tidings that you have arrived, and the invasion for liberation has begun.”
90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.
Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.
There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle.
But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.
rate of 15+ yard runs last year:
#61-of-65 Kareem Hunt (KC)
#63-of-65 Isiah Pacheco (KC)
KC's new RB, Kenneth Walker?
#3-of-65
total runs of 15+ yards last year:
18 runs on 221 att for Walker
3 runs on 281 att for KC’s lead RBs
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C.
November 21, 1864
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
Abraham Lincoln
Daily at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, they bring the American Flag down in this manner. It’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever witnessed.
“Home of the free, because of the Brave.”
Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.
What people really mean by this is “if you transported a modern offense back in time to Elway’s era, he’d be amazing”
if you put Elway’s drunk ass - which threw 226 picks in an era where defenses were incredibly basic coverage-wise - in the modern NFL, his head would explode