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Trump administration 2024-2028

HavokFour said:
On this episode of jaw droppingly ignorant and petty things to do... but I guess this is expected in his quest for oblast-hood.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Trump renames VE Day ignoring European contribution to victory

US president downplays role of allied forces in defeating Nazism, saying ‘nobody was close to us in terms of bravery or brilliance’
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
Alt: https://archive.ph/IldE9

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Russia refers to 08 May as “Victory Day”
Trump is announcing who his friends are.
 
McG said:
Russia refers to 08 May as “Victory Day”
Trump is announcing who his friends are.
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Next thing you know, US airborne forces’ll switch to sky blue berets. They can probably get a mess of ‘em cheap from UKR, which switched to maroon.
 
GR66 said:
Well I'm not so sure that Soviet 1.0 would be very happy with the suggestion that the US "won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance"

From Chatgpt:

And Europe in general might have something to say about WWI
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I remember taking my father-in-law back to Juno Beach on the 51st anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1995…we were unable to make it for the 50th). It was his first time back to Europe since the war. I forget the name of the beachside road that connects the various landing zones, but I remember seeing a bunch of aging American ex-GIs going along the road in a convoy of vintage military vehicles as they sounded an old-style vehicle siren. They were waving at the crowds that had gathered along Juno Beach. All of a sudden my father-in-law starts yelling some mild obscenities and insults at the Americans such as “Get out of here…go back to Omaha and Utah, you bastards” and “We took this beach…not you!” I’m not sure if the vets could hear him over the noise of the sirens but we were rather embarrassed as some of the others in the crowd seemed to react to his outburst. We tried soothing his temper by saying that the Americans may have been honouring all of their fellow allies at the various beaches but he would have none of it. Mind you, it wasn’t quite as bad as some of the insults he also hurled at some nearby German tourists within earshot…”You’d almost think they won this bloody war”.
 
My father, who served in the RAMC in France, Italy, and north Africa refused to watch any post war movie that came out of Hollywood. He considered every one of the to be nothing more than "how America won the war", and was always put out at how little credit was given to the work and sacrifice of the other nations involved.
 
JLB50 said:
I remember taking my father-in-law back to Juno Beach on the 51st anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1995…we were unable to make it for the 50th). It was his first time back to Europe since the war. I forget the name of the beachside road that connects the various landing zones, but I remember seeing a bunch of aging American ex-GIs going along the road in a convoy of vintage military vehicles as they sounded an old-style vehicle siren. They were waving at the crowds that had gathered along Juno Beach. All of a sudden my father-in-law starts yelling some mild obscenities and insults at the Americans such as “Get out of here…go back to Omaha and Utah, you bastards” and “We took this beach…not you!” I’m not sure if the vets could hear him over the noise of the sirens but we were rather embarrassed as some of the others in the crowd seemed to react to his outburst. We tried soothing his temper by saying that the Americans may have been honouring all of their fellow allies at the various beaches but he would have none of it. Mind you, it wasn’t quite as bad as some of the insults he also hurled at some nearby German tourists within earshot…”You’d almost think they won this bloody war”.
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I made it for the 50th - on my journey back to Canada (crossing the Atlantic on QE2 with my car) from Lahr. Didn't run across many Americans, except for the one (USAF Res) who I had picked up in Paris to give ride to England so she could catch a train to London (we had worked together during the Gulf War). Mostly the sites we visited were in the British/Canadian sector, though when I tried to go to the Bény-sur-Mer cemetery I was refused passage to it because the only Canadians allowed were those in the "official" party. Just down the road however was a giant marquee with a sign identifying it as 51st Highland Division and offering champagne to all. Once a few of the Jocks on the road saw the Canada license plate on my car, they waved us over and encouraged us to join in the celebrations in the tent. They said they had come ashore at Courseulles on the 7th and fought with the Canadians, so we were all comrades. Later in the day we were down at the beach for one on the ceremonies. As they were forming up they called out to a man standing next to me - "Hey Smokey, get over here" who replied that he hadn't been there, he had been in Italy; they said that didn't matter, so he joined them. Only then did I realize who he was.

Afterwards we headed to Ouistreham to catch the ferry to Portsmouth.
 
Blackadder1916 said:
I made it for the 50th - on my journey back to Canada (crossing the Atlantic on QE2 with my car) from Lahr. Didn't run across many Americans, except for the one (USAF Res) who I had picked up in Paris to give ride to England so she could catch a train to London (we had worked together during the Gulf War). Mostly the sites we visited were in the British/Canadian sector, though when I tried to go to the Bény-sur-Mer cemetery I was refused passage to it because the only Canadians allowed were those in the "official" party. Just down the road however was a giant marquee with a sign identifying it as 51st Highland Division and offering champagne to all. Once a few of the Jocks on the road saw the Canada license plate on my car, they waved us over and encouraged us to join in the celebrations in the tent. They said they had come ashore at Courseulles on the 7th and fought with the Canadians, so we were all comrades. Later in the day we were down at the beach for one on the ceremonies. As they were forming up they called out to a man standing next to me - "Hey Smokey, get over here" who replied that he hadn't been there, he had been in Italy; they said that didn't matter, so he joined them. Only then did I realize who he was.

Afterwards we headed to Ouistreham to catch the ferry to Portsmouth.
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We visited Bény-sur-Mer cemetery where my father-in-law was able to pay his respects to his buddies who are buried there. He told us stories about each man he knew and, in some cases, precisely how they died. Quite a humbling experience. In his last few days of life at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, he was unable to speak well and his final words, scribbled on a piece of paper before he slipped into a coma were…”The true heroes are the ones that died.”
 
JLB50 said:
We visited Bény-sur-Mer cemetery where my father-in-law was able to pay his respects to his buddies who are buried there. He told us stories about each man he knew and, in some cases, precisely how they died. Quite a humbling experience. In his last few days of life at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, he was unable to speak well and his final words, scribbled on a piece of paper before he slipped into a coma were…”The true heroes are the ones that died.”
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My father-in-law was at the Sunnybrook Veterans Wing. I was humbled every time I walked in.
 
lenaitch said:
My father-in-law was at the Sunnybrook Veterans Wing. I was humbled every time I walked in.
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K-Wing. They were an amazing bunch!

My mother was a physician at Sunnybrook and her rounds included K-Wing. On occasion I would follow along with her on rounds and chat with the vets, and I found a few who had landed on NAN GREEN/MIKE RED & GREEN on JUNO, along with my grandfather (Regina Rifles) — that was the Eastern Prairies beach: Regina Rifles, Winnipeg Rifles, and the 1st Hussars landing at Coursuelles sur Mer. It took a few visits, but I was honored with the stories that eventually were told to me by the Old Guard at K Wing… 🫡
 
My father-in-law was in the SDGs, second wave (I believe) at Juno. In the last year of his life he moved to Sunnybrook from a retirement home on Kingston Road. Once he got there he was sorry he waited so long as he was treated wonderfully by the staff and was able to talk about old times with his fellow WW2 vets. I was quite impressed with the place…can’t remember though which of the two veterans wings he was in.
 
I just personally verified this is a 100% real post tonight. He’s having a normal one.
 

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