Sad video

[Mike Griffin]

Subject: REAL-WW2 Burial at sea, (plane and all)!
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This is a VERY touching video, actually a piece of film that has been
made into a video, this is one that is NOT photo shopped, it's the
real scene!
 
Notice in the opening shot you'll see the gunner's position is all
shot to hell while the pilot's cockpit ahead of it is undamaged.
Later on notice the corpsman taking a fingerprint of the deceased
gunner, before the film continues, then showing the chaplain saying
the final prayers, followed by taps, then the sailors push the
aircraft and our patriotic airman over the side and watch it sink into
the distance sea.  Here's one for a serious conversation with your
kids.  THIS WAS REAL!
 
This is what 18 year old "kids" were doing in 1944.  No safe spaces,
no hurtful unthinkable remarks that they couldn't cope with, just
dying for their country so the ungrateful, uninformed  snowflakes of
today could act like fools decades later..............
 
This 2 minute video is pretty moving.  Worth your while.
"What actually made this country great is ordinary guys like this
doing extraordinary things

[Paul Wood]

I'm a pretty tough guy, but that made me cry like a baby.

Paul

[Skip Chernoff]

Very moving. It's the cost of our Freedom.

[Mike Griffin]

I'm a pretty tough guy, but that made me cry like a baby.

Paul

Me too Paul.

[wwwarbird]

 Thanks for posting Mike.

[Tony Drago]

Thank you for the post.

[Warren Walker]

They truly were the greatest generation.

[Gary Dowler]

Sobering. They knew this could happen on every single mission, yet they never questioned their duty and went out every time.
Too many younger people today can't spell duty. Or honor. Or love of country.

Gary

[TDM]

In December of 1989 I was a 19 year old guarding the TV station with an AK in my hand during the Revolution in Romania.
I am sobbing too after that footage was played.

[Bootlegger]

  I have to thank God that we still have young people that will still give their lives for this Great Nation. That truly was a sad moment, but thank God that they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice ... All gave some, some gave all...

[Ken Culbertson]

Very touching.  My father flew the TBF but his program was cut before he saw combat and he went to war on a minesweeper. One of his brothers flew B-24's from Italy and Libya and the other drove tanks under Patton.  All survived.  Our generation cannot hold a candle to them and I don't think the current generations even knows what a candle is.

Ken

[Mike Griffin]

These men literally saved the world.  If you ever have the chance to come here to New Orleans, please visit the WW2 Museum, it is something you will remember for the rest of your life.  People literally come from all over the World to see it.

Mike

[Avaiojet]

I was 18 when I got drafted and so were thousands of others.

I believe 50,000 casualties for Vietnam

Possibly 500,000 for WWII.

All of it is sad.

[FLOYD CARTER]

Nobody "gives" their lives for their country!  Their present, past, and future were brutally taken from them.  If given a choice, I think they would have preferred to come back home instead of dying in some foreign country.

[john e. holliday]

Hope this is readable as my sight is a little bleary after watching the video.  Yes those that never returned would have loved to come home, but they didn't argue or skip the country when they were called and most volunteered for the service back then.  I have class mates and friends that went to Vietnam and were different when they made it home.  They went because that was their duty and I still can't thank them or any of our veterans for what they did.   

[Frank Imbriaco]

Sad indeed. I lost an Uncle in 1929, long before I was born. He was a Naval Aviator in training and died while piloting a Waco 10.
A guy I surely missed growing up without.

[Will Hinton]

I can't decide if I'm sorry I didn't know about this while I was on the Essex or if I'm happy I didn't know at the time.  The old girl had her glory moments, but likely multiple times that number of sad moments like this.
AT2 in VS39 1959-1962 and with a blurry screen right now.

[pat king]

Thanks for the posting Mike. When a person takes the oath they sign a blank check to the country for everything up to and including their life. No one wants to die for their country, but those that stand up are willing to if it becomes necessary. Yes it is hard to type through the tears.

Pat

[Ted Fancher]

 

Ted

[mark romanowitz]

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[Chad Hill]

Lots of information here on the TBM gunner, AMM2 Loyce Edward Deen, and the events surrounding his final flight.

http://www.loyceedeen.org

[Louis Rankin]

As a young man I listened intently to the stories of men who had experienced battle in WWII.  My Grandfather woke up every night screaming after the war until his death in 1968.  The leader of our youth group talked of his experiences until he passed away just a couple of years ago.  These men when they were young spent their youth defending our freedom.  Though today's youth are not cut from the same cloth, thankfully there are still those who would step up to the plate and defend freedom.