The song of the paratroopers "Blood on the Risers (Gory Gory What a Helluva Way to Die)", for D-Day

[@johnsheffield3058]

My Father taught me this song, when I was 10 or 11. He said they sang it, aboard the C-47 that was transporting him and his fellow 101st Paratroopers to Normandy for the D-Day invasion. He was 13 days short of 19 years old, when he made the jump.

[@heidimark1277]

Respect

[@cikosphysicaltherapist6017]

God Bless your Family sir!

[@leonardstuart4923]

Ich bin eine Fallschirmjäger ❤

[@leonardstuart4923]

Co. A 2nd Bn. 509th Airborne. 8th Inf. Div.😊

[@AuntieMamie]

Thank him for his bravery and service

[@rrl4245]

I and my father both sang that song. We went through Ft Benning 30 years apart. He in 1943 and I in 1973. AIRBORNE!

[@trevormccarthy9019]

And I sang it in 1992..

[@rrl4245]

@@trevormccarthy9019 AIRBORNE! Brother

[@Recker1990]

The irony of singing a song about dying from a parajump to ease the reality of possibly dying during a parajump

[@TheMatthew9201]

Yeah, this is how people used to push through trauma/difficulty, by making “light” of it

[@Recker1990]

@@TheMatthew9201 laughter is life's best anesthesia

[@edbrake2723]

In 1968 this could be heard throughout the area where our training barracks were located. Made a trainee think about what he was doing and about to do. Even today, if I fell or had to jump from any height I would still attempt to perform a PLF.

[@TrueOpinion99]

It's called "dark humor."

[@allenklingsporn6993]

​@@TheMatthew9201 Used to? Still do, in all sorts of traumatic lines of work.

[@dannylackey2693]

101st nam vet,that song always makes my heart swell!😊

[@fgmgutta]

The veterans wiping tears…. Thank you, gentlemen.

[@SMElder-iy6fl]

My husband was Airborne. He used to sing this to me.

[@Kristine-x1t]

❤

[@josephkondrat6478]

This rips out a piece of my soul. It is more beautiful than can be expressed.

[@jg2072]

A well sung song remembering those who died for us.

[@LuckyLukix]

I Hope These Children NEVER meets WAR ... Thank You For OUR FREEDOM

[@ragnarvalhalla4392]

If you american, you will have wars all the time, but not in your own country.

[@snipper1ie]

Your FREEEEEEEEEDOM is not now, nor was it ever under threat of foreign invasion. You are in between two oceans. You are quite safe. You flew half way around the world and took over two countries at the same time. Yet the most evil place on Earth, Cuba, still exists. You have enough paratroopers to jump into and eat Cuba. Yet, it is still there? Cuba is still there because your owners need Cuba to scare you from making a Resturant pay a waitress a decent wage. The FREEDOM that they peddle you is to keep you from unionising and being paid a decent wage for a decent day's work.

[@chrismuller9289]

Das fängt bei Euch daheim an: Wählt nicht die Hetzer, die Aufrührer und Lügner und Faktenverdreher. Wählt nicht die Verschwörungstheoretiker, die neuen und internationalen Nazis, die Spalter. Wählt die Vernunft. Wählt die, die an Frieden denken, Einheit. Denkt an den Ruf der französischen Revolution: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Der beste Wahlspruch, den es je gegeben hat!

[@devajean_marc]

pourtant elle arrive a grand pas

[@LuckyLukix]

@@devajean_marc Yes, I am afraid of it, but I will be there again as a veteran, in a different kind of war, but to protect my children and everyone for our norms and values ​​and freedom

[@KrAkHeN87]

I'm not military but this song chokes me up everytime

[@papakilodelta5099]

It shouldn’t. It’s a moral booster. It’s making light of an awful accident that reminded the men that even in war, there are worse ways to die.

[@emelyarye2641]

why? weird

[@ManWithNoName1980]

Best version I've ever heard. I do have tears in my eyes.

[@johnjohn8042]

My dad was 82nd Airborne “you call, we fall”

[@charlesemerytookeiii6632]

Ha Ha! I've never heard that one!

[@fidelramoscastro3153]

Wow, her voice is amazing. ❤ Brava!

[@traveltrailerlife]

In 1969 I was in the 82nd Airborne Division "All-American" Chorus...My frist Unit .

[@lyngruen8607]

I was graduating 🎓 high-school 1969. My dad was in Vietnam....after having been in WWII and KOREAN 2X ..... he served 30 years USAF 🇺🇸 RET CMSGT ... A/O was his enemy. He passed in 2013 RIP DADDY ☝️💖🇺🇸 Texas Nana Psalm 91

[@NavyCWO]

I remember my Father singing this when I was a kid!

[@RelationalDatabase-us7fr]

We use to sing a version of this song at school in the UK

[@Atax_gaming]

This was absolutely amazing, brought me goosebumps.

[@eziukasLT]

Me too !

[@heidimark1277]

Thank you

[@justinaustin3063]

I think about those boys on D-day and the ones in Iwo Jima and the ones all over the world who were fighting true evil. The ones lost. The honor and glory they brought themselves and this great nation. Then i think about the ugly politicians and contract corporations who reared their ugly heads after the war and played on the emotion brought about from the horrors of ww2 and how they used that to not better the country or American lives but to fatten their wallets. Im not sure if we'll ever fight another war so understandable and honorable as ww2.

[@jeanphilippeduwer2266]

Coucou de la France 🇫🇷 merci

[@martjc]

bravo a la jeune fille .

[@cmcn723]

Honra e Glória para a melhor Geração de todas

[@WillisLinn]

I just told this by someone else, depression and despair, is for people who have nothing left to do to make it better. We have a lot of work to do we can't afford to be depressed we can't afford to be worried, Scaired of dying? Hell every time we blink our eyes we know deep inside there's not even One guaranteed chance, for it to happen again, "unless" it's supposed to. I lived a free life until now so I got a lot to pay back that which God and our forefathers Blessed us with this Nation created with blood sweat tears and many met horrable ends for America to remain Free. I served for Our families and to earn Honor "not gold" with my Oath of enlistment it was my Word of Honor and when I raised my hand to Protect Our Constitution against all foes To protect Our Peoples bit let admit I was nervous for the seriousness of the Oath and worried because I'd read and it worded it out and understood. I knew I was serving for all us and freedom for all Americans and teaching by doing and hope they always choose Right over Wrong. Please Stand up for decency, caring, and a hand up when it's needed, for any and all humanity. We must demand the congressman and senators federal and state governors president stand up for our constitution once it falls once Trump can take away our vote we have no voice and we have no rights in our own government. If you're not worried or scared then You never seen what dictators do overseas.

[@williampfaffjr7684]

I have met, with Honor, Troopers that had jumped into Normandy. I great ALL Troopers with, " "Airborne Sir," and watch the smiles on their faces. I taught my grand daughter, at 4, "I want to be an Airborne Ranger. Living on blood and guts and danger." Now she is 39, it is a very warm memory. God Bless All Troopers`Past, Present and Future ~ HOOAH ! 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam ,1965-1966 ❤🙏

[@SunnyTheChristianGuy]

Thank you for your service. Without all the soldiers like you, all the freedom in America would be gone in an instant.

[@williampfaffjr7684]

@@SunnyTheChristianGuy Sir, thank you for your graceful reply. I would serve AGAIN if I could. May God Bless you and carry on....✝ 🙏

[@infantryattacks153]

Imagine being there with your grandpa and heard the actual lyrics of this song for the first time…..

[@hefalu]

Imposible no😢❤

[@kevinpreston5590]

​@@hefalui did.

[@patrickharper9297]

i didn't hear him sing it till the 80's... he didn't sing it often or talk much about the world war... but he came to the airport when i came back from iraq and afghanistan

[@BenFarmer-u1v]

What an angel

[@bushcraft6884]

Hell is that nice. That was impressive.

[@plahoda9242]

I laugh at such an angelic voice singing such a gruesome song. Liberty and freedom is not inherited and transferred through blood, and tyranny is never more then a generation away.

[@dundonrl]

My grandfather jumped into Germany in June 44, one of those who was there a few hours before the Amphibious part of the D-Day invasion!

[@WilliamRusnak-ug6zo]

Sorry but that would be France, not Germany. Respect to him and his fellow paratroopers.

[@billyt-v7u]

Bless the all. Then and now

[@doraldeddy1836]

I pray that enough younger folk try to remember what the generations who fought in WW1/WW2 and gave up their lives in so doing, and realise why it had to be done? For the freedom they all now enjoy.

[@megancampbell2949]

Such a beautiful rendition of this song I love hearing it

[@grouchyoleguy]

Didn't see one set of jump wings in that choir which is a shame since the 82nd has a really awesome one

[@allenklingsporn6993]

This is the French Army choir. They aren't likely to be airborne qualified. Also, they're most likely to keep sterile uniforms in order to represent the entire force. The 82nd choir is pretty awesome though. -Devil in Baggy Pants

[@grouchyoleguy]

@@allenklingsporn6993 didn't realize it was a French unit ...I heard the 82nd choir sing it live and in my opinion they are the best at it

[@heidimark1277]

I have many of the 82nd Choir for the commemorations in Normandy, but here it was the choir of french army which is composed of choristers of the republican Guard, such as Philippe Brocard

[@John5209]

This French choir unit's drill sucks big time for a parade of this importance. But then what can one really expect from the Frogs when mercenaries in the Foreign Legion actually fight their wars?

[@guillaumejago]

@@John5209 You don't know nothing about the french army or the hardships it faced you are a disgrace to wherever you come from here we are listening to french people singing an iconic song to pay respect to the brave paratroopers who jumped above normandy on 6 June 44. Ad to educate you the French army was at war before you coutry(probally) was even a thing so shut the Fuck up ya cunt

[@jameshorn270]

One WW II veteran of the original airborne units wrote a memoir in which he included an incident in which a practice jump resulted in one jumper falling with a collapsed chute. As the author picked up his equipment preparing to leave the LZ, an ambulance went by. The jumper, though severely injured, had survived. He was the chaplain.

[@Azidra100]

Magnifica homenagem aos gloriosos combatentes da 101 . Que o Senhor dos Exércitos abençoe a todos os guerreiros que lutaram e lutam para defender a liberdade.

[@baltakatei]

And yet, somehow, noöne at Wikipedia can figure out the copyright status of this song to include lyrics in the relevant article.

[@malcolmcog]

I'm an ex Royal Engineer and this has destroyed me to tears

[@janandersen8735]

The reference to blood on the risers stems from the design of the original parachute, the T4. The canopy fully deployed before the risers so the jumper was freefalling before being violently snapped to a hover, with the risers leaving bloody marks on the neck and equipment also detaching itself. The British parachute worked the opposite, the the risers were fully extended before the canopy, which resulted in a much gentler deceleration. At least that is how I understand it.

[@richardbarbell5145]

Instantly cry. Climb to glory trooper.

[@jimritchie4021]

I am a x British PARA. We sang similar songs in case we a had a Roman candle ,a failed opening

[@marinegator1833]

🫡 sleep peacefully my brothers and sister. Til Valhalla we will me

[@misterxrd]

Beautiful

[@DanielBraman]

I'm proud to be a US Soldier

[@jamespickering2982]

Superb

[@Kingdom_Of_Terrestia]

I want to be a paratrooper in the US ARMY

[@rogerperkins899]

Frenchmen singing Blood on the Risers. Now that's something to see... AATW!

[@andyhowat4624]

Glory Glory hallelujah

[@josephmarullo4758]

Bastardization of the song, a hollywood version of a great song.

[@alvinlucywalk8317]

HEROISM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL❤❤❤NO GREATER LOVE THAN TO BE WILLING TO BE A SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR THE LIFE OF OTHERS❤❤❤Totally funky playful words to say NO to fear relax the SOUL calm the NERVES and JUMP INTO GLORIOUS ETERNITY❤❤❤HALLELUJAH 🇵🇷

[@herudewantara502]

For nation political interest bro...

[@IophiXut-mu7ke]

Danggggg goosebumps

[@ScourgeOfTheNorth]

Is that homer simpson singing?😂

[@ronylauwers8140]

respect!

[@funbagshosehound7947]

I'm not a vet but everytime I hear this song I always tear up

[@TATCHIWONG]

Blue Sky...Jump High......🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ChrisWot-z8t]

I was a Soldier and Salute!!!!

[@classmst89]

No disrespect, but they got nothing on the old soldier singing this accapella

[@MyName-yl2nc]

Vince speranza a legend absolutely a fuckin warrior

[@classmst89]

@@MyName-yl2nc thank you! Didnt know his name

[@Mr_Zimm]

Vince jumped into Normandy.

[@filiperocha4466]

🎈🎼💙💛

[@05Hogsrule]

HOOYAH!

[@user-jo4rj5yw7q]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@peterbertilsson6753]

He sounds like Homer Simpson singing, girl is amazing

[@Jacob_gigan_miles]

Totally this should be in usa got talent

[@heidimark1277]

Sorry, but Philippe Brocard is far from looking like Homer Simpson 😕

[@BoxBox276]

Airborne Leads the Way, All the Way!! 🫡🫡

[@gilgonzalez4416]

All The Way And Then Some

[@larseinargridsvsaag3607]

Niiiceeee

[@ModestCube100]

i wasnt airborne but damn.. 19kio

[@camarocarl7130]

Why are Legs singing this?

[@bobleponge6766]

I am a Lumberjack and I am OK.......

[@fatalberti]

macroni and voldamort slinki. smeh. what do they have to do with any of this in history ever

[@berniequinn8813]

And I sang it in 66

[@mexiinvasion5919]

das muss in die geschichte eingehen

[@ronaldparobek2169]

At your age 😮😮😅😅❤

[@sarahbass6116]

And what about all the other verses………………

[@DavidBellika-z1u]

AIRBORNE

[@ersanertugrul9488]

❤😂❤🥲🥰

[@martiniv8924]

A child singing a battle song ? 🤦🏻‍♂️let’s hope she never has to see the gore of war

[@antonkider7360]

I'd rather prefer 40 old vets there singing... No need for a conductor or a tenor... Just 40 old vets

[@maleahbranch5932]

D-Day invasion he was 13 days short of 18 years old course Ferrell WW11 1943 -1973 battle war civil amy troop 🪖🪖🪖 🙏🙏🙏🙏 death concer 😢😢😢😢 killed Norser Gramans battle man death sivivers hopiters

[@conradfisher1682]

The little girl, inappropriate.

[@PhD_Romantiko]

trump hate this song.

[@carlot7999]

Full of sympathy for that Remembrance Day…..but: To instrumentalize a child for singing that song is „disgraceful“.