What really gets to me emotionally about WWII

Some of you guys should write a book. I am all teared up. Really!

 

That Generation wasn't named the "Greatest Generation" for nothing. WW2 set the stage for the coming civilization. Everything that happened in that short span set the stage for our current society. Science, Physics, Politics, Medicine, Technology,Industry. Everything can be directly attributed too the War and that generation.

 

Children losing their fathers, parents losing there sons, and children getting getting killed.

This I know is a tragic fact of war, but nonetheless a greatly emotional one.

 

Yep, that's probably 2nd saddest story.

I've seen few interview with Allied soliders that talked about little boys with guns at Hurtgen Forest etc (they didn't know if they should shoot etc).

1st would certainly be the children murdered in the concentration camps.



How about Russian POW being liberated by Russians only to be sent to Siberia....OUCH

 

In my living room, above my fireplace, are three pictures- one of my grandfather, who worked onboard the USS Orion and worked on submarines, the next of my great uncle Eddie, who fought as an Army radioman who participated in D-Day and St Lo, and finally my Great Uncle O'Brien, who fought with the Merril's Marauders in Burma against the Japanese. Sometimes I just stare at their pictures quietly, thinking of what it was like for them- my Great Uncle O'Brien, to never see his family and girlfriend again- my Grandfather, who died years before I was born- and to my Great Uncle Eddie, who passed away from lung cancer just months after I was born.

To them I salute-
Petty Officer 3rd Class Albert Walka, USS Orion
First Lieutenant Frank O'Brien, Merrils Marauders
Lance Corporal Ed "Eddie" Walka, US 29th Infantry Division