World War II veterans return to Normandy nearly 80 years later

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8 ай бұрын

Two Americans who served in World War II, both over the age of 100, spent a week overseas and returned to the beaches of Normandy almost eight decades later.
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@frankcross6958 8 ай бұрын

its very sad knowing that in only a few more years, there will be no more WWII veterans to talk to

@JTMaster 8 ай бұрын

Indeed. 10 years tops I feel. We recently lost the last Medal of Honor recipient for that war. Only like two pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen are still too. I got to meet a few of them when I was in my early teens.

@Fernandaperez233 8 ай бұрын

😊In reality there are still millions

@JTMaster 8 ай бұрын

@@Fernandaperez233 There are only around 100,000 WWII veterans still alive in the U.S. out of the 16 million that served. Even adding in veterans of other countries, it probably doesn't even reach a million in total. Most of the Russian or Ukrainian veterans are dead due to much lower life expectancies there during the Soviet era.

@rma9472 8 ай бұрын

Generations that follow will never truly know of their sacrifice of The Greatest Generation.

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

My honest and sincere apologies for invading your privacy abruptly. Well I was scrolling down on my update when I came across your profile, I was fascinated and became interested in knowing you...if you don't mind

@kimdurig1322 8 ай бұрын

These these men and their allies are true heroes , God bless them .

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@bungalowmo 8 ай бұрын

Happy Veterans Day to these 2 amazing heroes!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🫡😁💥💥

@catherinepraus8635 8 ай бұрын

My mom died 2 weeks ago she was 97 and she was a Rosie the riveter at Boeing in Seattle Washington i miss her so much but she lived a long life and I’m glad I got to know her as a friend and not just my mom😢 RIP momma

@teelakovacs208 8 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry. No age, feels like an ok time to lose someone you love. It sounds like your mom was pretty incredible ❤

@DimJongUn 8 ай бұрын

My grandfather was on the USS North Carolina in the Pacific during WWII. He passed in 1997. Thinking of him on this Veterans Day.

@BC.28 8 ай бұрын

My great grandfather was there, fighting in the British army. He passed away in 1993 when I was a teenager. Sadly he came back and inflicted a lot of his trauma out on the next few generations. They had no outlet or understanding on how to process what they experienced.

@DimJongUn 8 ай бұрын

@@BC.28 yeah I feel ya. My grandfather was from Tennessee, came to Washington State for the Navy right after pearl harbor when he was 19. Met my grandmother who was divorced with a kid, and had 3 kids with her (my mom included) before he split and had two more with his second wife. My mom didn't know her dad until I was born in the 80s. Have nothing but positive memories of him, and I know I wouldn't be here without him enlisting, but there's still trauma there for my mom and her brothers

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@jenford7078 8 ай бұрын

Amazing! What were the odds that they not only lived through the Normandy battle but 80 years after it. Those are a couple of real men there!

@meliw4142 8 ай бұрын

I get teary-eyed when I see these guts from the Silent Generation. They just did whatever needed to be done. My father too was of that generation and a WWII veteran. I also grew up surrounded by WWI & Korean War vets. I salute their fortitude and strength.

@ShonRT 8 ай бұрын

WW2 Veterans are from The Greatest Generation.

@DonIsadick-mf3gv 8 ай бұрын

They are lucky to still be alive. Glad they are.

@michaelmulligan-nufer186 8 ай бұрын

What I would give to hear their advice on how to cope with the blessings of life, the harrows of death, the best times of love, the worst pains of grief, and the times of a very, very well-spent life. #GodBless them and our troops not only on this Veterans' Day, which is today for me, but every day of all our lives for those who live here in THE United States of America.

@kristenkaz3080 8 ай бұрын

Thank you both for your service to our country & the other countries you protected while on Utah beach. May God always bless you & your loved one.

@danielcuckler2743 8 ай бұрын

Words cannot express my gratitude for your sacrifice and service. Thank you so much!

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@brandonbackus3713 8 ай бұрын

Good for them,thank you for your service guys!!!

@enckidoofalling2883 8 ай бұрын

My uncle, David Alexander was at Utah beach. He went on to liberate Paris and Belgium. He said the mud was horrible. Thank you as well for your service. then he served at Roswell. Never said anything. What a patriot.

@kennelexplicit 8 ай бұрын

I went to Utah beach this August, and walked my dogs there as the sun rised. I had chills thinking of the bravery of the men like your uncle. I am so grateful for all the men who fought for our liberty! ❤️❤️❤️

@sheriboston706 8 ай бұрын

They don't make 'em like that anymore!❤🇺🇲🦅Thank you Gentlemen for your Service.We are blessed here in the USA because of good people like you! Happy Veterans day.❤🇺🇲🕊️

@elizabethannegrey6285 8 ай бұрын

Such brave good looking men over a hundred years old.

@chimerabachus100 8 ай бұрын

God bless them!

@teacherbrian6164 8 ай бұрын

God Bless them.Both of my grandfather's served during WW2.

@Xane_Dragon 8 ай бұрын

My grandfather was educated so he didn't choose war .....he had a mind of his own

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@floppywalrus409 8 ай бұрын

A sense of responsibility and bravery existed in these men that is seldom found in the world today.

@tesladrive1152 8 ай бұрын

Not when leaders like Trump are around!

@myyoutube7144 8 ай бұрын

Did Fox tell you that?

@lynnhexler-haan3357 8 ай бұрын

@floppywalrus409 👍

@CarlaBaku 8 ай бұрын

Nonsense. There are still many heroes in this world and those who step up with bravery and courage when called upon. Fetishizing the past and making ridiculous, unfounded claims about the present does not honor these two wonderful gentleman.

@321MjC 8 ай бұрын

@@tesladrive1152 How so?? 🙃

@shirleyashanti3031 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, gentlemen, for the honor of service to America. God bless you for reminding us that heroism exists. The greatest generation. Much respect. ❤❤❤

@CeeJay____ 8 ай бұрын

It's interesting to hear from these folks. They're really from a different time.

@cmclean1954 8 ай бұрын

Awesome story on Veterans Day

@r.menzel8020 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful guys 🤩 Well done!

@KingJesus41 8 ай бұрын

God bless them. So glad they got that experience! Thank all you veterans who served for our country.

@maratmanabekov9741 8 ай бұрын

Замечательные герои - ветераны освободители. Салют и слава Победе!

@vladimirpeace-kun2084 8 ай бұрын

Скоро и вас ит тирана освободят, не переживай

@neoxyte 8 ай бұрын

May the world never forget the sacrifies made by these great men.

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@Phoenix-ov5gg 8 ай бұрын

И слава героям освободителям Украины которые жертвуют свои жизни в борьбе против зла 🇬🇧🇺🇦

@maratmanabekov9741 8 ай бұрын

@@Phoenix-ov5gg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦

@punyapatel4317 3 ай бұрын

Even after 20 years in this generation ppl can’t make such friendships that these 2 veterans made in 20 seconds ❤❤

@hotcayenne 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for my life, sirs!

@geridannels1701 8 ай бұрын

Thank you warriors for your service to this great country!

@veronicado1016 8 ай бұрын

Thank you both for your service. God bless you both 🙏❤️🇺🇲🦅

@rhondar4063 8 ай бұрын

WONDERFUL

@jeanthehumanbean8265 8 ай бұрын

We truly owe them a debt of gratitude for their bravery and service to keep Democracy alive.❤

@debbiecreter2005 8 ай бұрын

Thank you Bill and Gene for your service to our country! I’m so happy for you both to have met each other and to share your experiences from the war and during this visit! God bless you both!

@karenallen863 8 ай бұрын

Where would we be today without brave and truly patriotic service members like these two men? Such heroes!

@lisajeter9511 8 ай бұрын

My dear friends father died on that beach when she was just a few months old. Thank you for your service! I’m so glad to see these men still have their wits about them at this age. Thank you for sharing your story!

@user-rq8ku3hu8g 8 ай бұрын

May God bless are troops

@jeng2336 8 ай бұрын

A testimony to the Greatest Generation.

@catsrus-es9eu 3 ай бұрын

100 years old and getting around better than people half their age. Amazing ❤

@ericdixon2898 8 ай бұрын

I've known people in their 60s that seem older than them!

@cyberkraut5139 8 ай бұрын

Am I lucky that these guys came . Thank you guys!

@verdun16 8 ай бұрын

It is weird to think we are the last people to talk to WWII veterans. I thank them for their service.

@DoUntoOthersAsUWouldHaveDone2U 8 ай бұрын

This is SO beautiful. I didn’t intend to cry…..😭😭😭 I shall NEVER NOT hold a space of ultimate AWE & RESPECT for our soldiers, our HEROES.🇺🇸

@charlesjohnson4933 8 ай бұрын

Thank u for ur service

@wetblanket1977 8 ай бұрын

Thanks u for ur service gentlemen

@Shira1976 8 ай бұрын

They are extra cute with their blankets 😊

@0428733 4 ай бұрын

He looks sharp at old age, may he live a hundred years more

@jelaninoel 8 ай бұрын

80 years ago feeling like yesterday is wild thing to say

@902pacific 8 ай бұрын

grazie

@reubenj.cogburn8546 8 ай бұрын

For the last of the greatest generation. I apologize for what America has become.

@Xane_Dragon 8 ай бұрын

Right, they fought for nothing

@Vistapro97 8 ай бұрын

America is the way it is because of their kids. Literally the Boomers ruined this country. If you disagree with what I’m saying then I know exactly what generation you’re from 😊

@321MjC 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!! 😭😭

@EmptyServersOfTf2 4 ай бұрын

imagine being this dumb

@openup8027 8 ай бұрын

This is amazing . God bless

@Jessicaaa760 8 ай бұрын

BLESS THESE WONDERFUL MEN❤

@hannahjohnson7195 8 ай бұрын

I salute these heroes! We are proud of you sirs!

@Deltasquadformingup 8 ай бұрын

Im only 15. I'd absoulety love to go on a trip like that as a student but by the time i turn college age I'll be like 20 and extreamlly few ww2 vetearns will be allive. Hopefully I can maybe get to do this with Korea or vietnam veatearns because this seems really amazing experince for those students

@numerouno4040 8 ай бұрын

Respect 🫡

@seanirwin431 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service gentleman, you help keep Europe free, Greetings from Sean in London 😂🇬🇧

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@anncanzano1913 8 ай бұрын

God Bless 🙌 them both,and thank you for your sevices

@HunnyBearSugaBear 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful story ❤

@normanjacques4092 8 ай бұрын

God bless all those who served before and after. Freedom has never been free. We have taken all there sacrifice for granted. But not forgotten. God bless America.

@Dragonfly_vbz 8 ай бұрын

Truly the Last of the Greatest Generation.

@sandrapowell4166 8 ай бұрын

Brave heros

@SuperDiablo101 8 ай бұрын

My great uncle was there on Omaha Beach as a combat engineer and walked with his troops under the arc de triumph where you can see him in the famous photo...never talked about it nor any violent type stories or he'd breakdown...such a shame though my family's so split because we family and non family alike owe it to him to hear his history

@dayner989 8 ай бұрын

Bless em

@johnishikawa2200 8 ай бұрын

At the time of the Dunkirk evacuations , those two were in their teens , and their families anxious about a world that seemed to be rushing headlong towards the abyss . At that time , there may well have been veterans still alive who fought in the first and second battles of Bull Run . The world is safe now from the tyrants who tried to enslave it some eighty years ago , thanks to the young people who would give their lives in order to keep us free , like those two gentlemen there . But the world has it's new tyrants , madmen like the current dictator of Russia , whose fantasies of conquest and of mass murder are even more dangerous than those of the mass murderers who these two heroes fought against . Tribalism and bigotry must be banished from our way of thinking and of teaching our youngest members of society . If we cannot eliminate hate , then it is entirely possible that we won't survive our technological adolescence . But if we do survive , then our high flown plans to cure cancer and to expand into space and to visit other worlds in the remote future will be a reality .

@arrow_head24 6 ай бұрын

Real heroes!!

@unoseye5737 8 ай бұрын

Thank him for our freedom !

@gotmoxie 8 ай бұрын

I’d love to contact these amazing gentlemen for an interview!

@astridvallati4762 8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Henry V's speech before the Battle of Agincourt...." Band of Brothers" remembrance.

@walterbradthau9525 8 ай бұрын

God bless these men.🇺🇸

@SharonAk-gh4dv 8 ай бұрын

@fasanascimento 6 ай бұрын

The real heroes!

@kennethmiller5543 8 ай бұрын

You two veterans have been on a Mission from GOD since the day you were born! Your bravery your selflessness honorably stand tall then and now as you protected every family, every unborn child, every animal pets and farm animals, every living organism that breathes on earth and still do with your unity, toughness, and love for your fellow man women and child. I stand salute every veteran who fought to keep every family living in Democracy safe to vote. Free to live anywhere. Free to worship at the church of our choice. Free. Thank You, Mule Because of your heroism I can thank you for every year I’ve enjoyed in the awesome United States of America 🇺🇸.

@RayOid 8 ай бұрын

Salute 🫡

@thebestfella 3 ай бұрын

For someone who's 100 years they are very healthy

@Bamzuz 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your efforts in figthing evil 👍 and giving us a future in freedom 😇

@NikaGantz-fv3ih 8 ай бұрын

Wow. Amazing Only Americans can fight like that Thank you

@MarquitaR 8 ай бұрын

I think they served with my boyfriend's granddad he was also a medic and stomed the beach too

@Miki_big_red_machine 4 ай бұрын

Already 80 years ago…

@KhanLikeNo0ther 8 ай бұрын

God bless ❤❤❤

@jdmmg4904 8 ай бұрын

❤

@annadickens9245 8 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@jonathanwalkeer97 2 ай бұрын

Imagine this year the ones who will be there will be a big anniversary in June!

@faith5401 8 ай бұрын

THE LORD BLESS THEM AND KEEP THEM BOTH WELL AND LONG HEALTHY LIVES 🥰♥️♥️✝️

@sauronbadeye 8 ай бұрын

Those two brave men are real heroes!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@twe73jr 8 ай бұрын

🙏✌️

@Eusoik 7 ай бұрын

It is truly saddening for me, as a Gen Z, that we and Gen Alpha are the last generations to witness and interact with these brave men.

@CPTBlackDragon07 8 ай бұрын

God bless them! 😎👍✝️❤️🇺🇸🏅🎖

@Dr.BenjiBuddy 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service 🇳🇱🇪🇺 The brother of my grandfather was executed by the Germans for being part of the resistance, he was killed just 2 days before we were liberated. My other grandfather had "onderduikers" (people who were hiding from Germans) in his house. There are a lot of horrible stories in my family. There would've been many more if it wasn't for Americans saving us.

@a2j.holyloveaffairreyna757 8 ай бұрын

WARRIORS OMNIPRESENT WISDOM

@JohnSchaeferUNIVERSE 8 ай бұрын

AMERICANS HAVE FORGOTTEN ❤

@eagleone-ff9lz 8 ай бұрын

I truly love ww2 veterans the last Godly generation in American, God bless this heroes, love from Indonesia🇮🇩

@angelicaortega6720 8 ай бұрын

Amazing !!! And he remembers everything 🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰❤️

@glennfrick7975 8 ай бұрын

🇺🇸GOD BLESS🇺🇸

@kevbrix9686 23 күн бұрын

Sir.

@user-wh9qc6jf9q 8 ай бұрын

❤🇺🇸❤🇯🇪

@ShangDi_became_Jesus 8 ай бұрын

I bet there piiiised off at how the country turned out. I am, i could only imagine how it is for someone who shed blood

@michaelrmurphy2734 8 ай бұрын

I would want to go to France and Belgium too, but not for what happened during the Second World War. I would go for what happened during the FIRST World War!