One comment on all this rhetoric,I see here on D-Day.There but for the Grace of God-Go I.
Be thankful you made it home from this terrible conflict.By the way anyone know what outfit
got the most 3 day passes in WW2. A prayer in remberance of all invasions and those who gave all,would be appropiate.
Comrade In Arms
Jim H-87th-Inf-Div.
One comment on all this rhetoric,I see here on D-Day.There but for the Grace of God-Go I.Be thankful you made it home from this terrible conflict.By the way anyone know what outfit
got the most 3 day passes in WW2. A prayer in remberance of all invasions and those who gave all,would be appropiate.
Comrade In Arms
Jim H-87th-Inf-Div.
AMEN
Roque Riojas
1st Bn. 135th, 34th Divn.
Another Comrade
Roque J.(Rocky) Riojas
Well thanks to SonofaMP, I was reading the unclassified documents on the invasion of Sicily. Husky Operations Plan Sicily
http://www.american-divisions.com/doc.asp?...mp;pagenumber=1
Here's to THAT D-Day and all the preparation, man power, perserverance, determination, loss of life, fortitude, and everything it takes to push a venture this great. To all who were there. 
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Hello at all,
I just returned from my stay in Normandy.
I spent three wonderful days.
Encounter people formidable.
I was very moved by my meeting with several véterans.
I put some pictures to make you to wait.
Because I made more than 600 photos and I want to make a very nice ablum for you !
And you explain my weekend while details. my meeting with MOOSE was fantastic , It is brilliant my sons liked him !
They have that talk about him & co all evening !
PS:I to hurry up to make my promised album
VEE 
Under every white cross of American Cemetery of Colleville (Normandy), sleeps a piece of Freedom
Vee, looks like you had a marvelous time with Moose in Normandy. Bravo! Love the photo of you in the foxhole. You look like a natural with the Garand. 
And Moose was having a good ol' time with the beer. Oh Moose! 
Beautiful photographs. Your son looks like he was very proud to have his picture taken with all the vets of past and present, and the reenactors.
Thanks for sharing all that. So happy you two finally got to meet, and at such an historic and sacred place.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
What a fantastic series of photos. Moose and your son look so cute together. I've always loved a man in uniform.
"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend, inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx
Received this from my 82nd Airborne buddy, Howard Huebner. I am very proud of you Howard. Way to go boy!
BETTY AND AND I WERE INVITED TO HOUSTON, TEXAS TO GIVE A SPPECH ABOUT D-DAY. THEY FLEW US OVER. IT WAS A ONE NIGHT STAY. ENOUGH OF HOUSTON TOO BIG. WE HAD A GOOD FLIGHT BOTH WAYS. THEY SAID IT WAS THE BIGGEST CROWD THEY HAVE EVER HAD. IT WAS IN AN OLD HOUSE OF YEARS AGO. A BIG ONE - LIVING ROOM ABOUT 40 X 60 FT. WE HAD A GOOD TIME AND I DIDN'T PUT ANYONE TO SLEEP. GOT A STANDING OVATION. I'M STILL ON CRUTCHES AND WHEN A GAL WHEELED ME TO THE PLANE SHE WANTED TO KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING AND I TOLD HER. SHE SAID YOU GOT TO TALK TO THE CAPTAIN, AND HE WAS WAITING FOR ME AND WE CHATTED A BIT. WHILE ON THE TARMACK HE ANOUNCED WE HAVE A CELEBRITY ON BOARD, A PARATROOPER WHO JUMPED INTO NORMANDY AND I GOT A LOUD APPLAUSE. WHAT A TRIP...
HOWARD
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Great pic's V!! I'm so jealous!! Hopefully I could make it out there some time. Doesn't look like next year is going to work, being in Iraq and all, but maybe sometime. Can't wait to see more photos.
Maj Todd O. USMC, Retired
Grandson of LTC John O'Brien
A few other links from Jim Hennessey:
Sorry, better late than never...
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/dday.htm
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...june%2C6%2C1944
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Here's a link Howard Huebner sent me, re: post earlier this week
http://www.afdehou.org/index_files/events.htm
Marion's note: Evidently this link doesn't take you to the story anymore. Sigh!
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Hello at all, 
I decide to put all the photos I took of my stay in normandy where I spent three wonderful days. The festivities organised for the anniversary of the landing . I'm sure you'd have loved it !! We met a lot of American soldiers especially pilots and paratroops because they were jumping on sunday close to the "Fiére" .Together with French and German paratroops.
I Encounter people formidable.
I was very moved by my meeting with several véterans.
Has who I made autographs sign .
My son Arnaud ask to get a picture with them and for a autographs .They did it with amusement and enthusiasm. The american soldiers I found it very nice . They give him full of this pin's badges of them division and chocolate . It was like any proud !
He said Mom, look american chocolate . As grandmother had to eat when she was little during the war .
Here a link album with photos from the Anniversary D-Day Normandy 2008 :
http://picasaweb.google.com/waminvero/Normandie06
I hope you like the photos
VEE 
Under every white cross of American Cemetery of Colleville (Normandy), sleeps a piece of Freedom
Hello at all,
I decide to put all the photos I took of my stay in normandy where I spent three wonderful days. The festivities organised for the anniversary of the landing . I'm sure you'd have loved it !! We met a lot of American soldiers especially pilots and paratroops because they were jumping on sunday close to the "Fiére" .Together with French and German paratroops.
I Encounter people formidable.
I was very moved by my meeting with several véterans.
Has who I made autographs sign .
My son Arnaud ask to get a picture with them and for a autographs .They did it with amusement and enthusiasm. The american soldiers I found it very nice . They give him full of this pin's badges of them division and chocolate . It was like any proud !
He said Mom, look american chocolate . As grandmother had to eat when she was little during the war .
http://picasaweb.google.com/waminvero/Normandie06
I hope you like the pictures
VEE
OUTSTANDING... Well done VEE. you certainly got around. 
A Moose no longer alone in the Wolverine State.
VEE,
MANY THANKS TO YOU FOR YOUR GREAT PICTURES ON D-DAY ANNIVERSARY . I KNOW EVERONE LOOKS FORWARD TO SEEING MORE IN YOUR ALBUM.
I ALSO ENJOYED SEEING THE COMMENTS FROM ALL THE OTHERS ON THE FORUM.
ColBill
Dear Vee,
LOVED YOUR PHOTOS! Thank you for sharing them with us. Some of them (of the elderly Vets) was almost too much. I Thank God for every day we still have them among us. I only wish it could be Forever...and I mean all of them, not just the men who took part in the invasion of Normandie. Again, Thank You for those wonderful photos!
Dogdaddy
Dogdaddy 1
Vee,
I have recently finished a review of your D-Day anniversary album on Picasa Web .
It was wonderful !! I especially enjoyed seeing you, Arnaud and Luc and others form the forum in your pictures.The area at Colleville sur mer is beautiful and you seemed to have a very nice weather day .
Thank you again for sharing your beautiful photos .
ColBill
