Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day (and a week)

2015-06-15 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
@okiebenz.com Cc: Scott Ritchey ritche...@nc.rr.com Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day (and a week) Wilton, Thanks for that first-hand account of D-day from ground level. All: Maybe folks have already seen this (and I should have posted it a week ago) but here

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day (and a week)

2015-06-14 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
Wilton, Thanks for that first-hand account of D-day from ground level. All: Maybe folks have already seen this (and I should have posted it a week ago) but here is (IMO) a very interesting slide-show of D-day (and beyond) events: http://pt709.synology.me/NormandyLanding1.pps. Left click on

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-11 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
- From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day Watching part of a Nova program tonight about D Day. One of the first

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-11 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of WILTON via Mercedes Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 11:36 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: WILTON Subject: [MBZ] 71 years and a day And we should never florget. I wrote the folllowing several years ago. Some of you may hjave seen it before. LITTLE BOATS AND 6 JUN

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-10 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
Thanks Wilton! Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of WILTON via Mercedes Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 11:36 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: WILTON Subject: [MBZ] 71 years and a day And we should never florget. I wrote

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-10 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
] On Behalf Of WILTON via Mercedes Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 11:36 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: WILTON Subject: [MBZ] 71 years and a day And we should never florget. I wrote the folllowing several years ago. Some of you may hjave seen it before. LITTLE BOATS AND 6 JUN 1944 By Wilton W

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-10 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
@okiebenz.com Cc: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day Watching part of a Nova program tonight about D Day. One of the first scenes I saw had guys in a landing craft. The helmets had white arcs on them. Maybe it is little Boats

[MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-07 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
I sent a post with a photo last night, but it has not cleared the listmom. so, without the photo: Today is D-Day plus 1 Remembering the monumental efforts of 1944. Defeat tyranny. Viva la liberte! The photo shows people on the beach below a cemetary. Never having been there, I'm

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-07 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
No matter now, I sent the link to the video and if anyone wants they can find the picture. It was weird though... My computer said it was under 150 Kb, and the message from the okie mail said it was some huge number in the Gb range. I tried it over after I reduced the size of the picture to

Re: [MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-07 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Just a reminder: If you get a “needs approval” message from the list, drop me a private message so I know it’s there. I try to check the incoming queue at least once a day, since if I don’t it gets unbelievably backed up with all sorts of things you don’t want to know about. If the spam that

[MBZ] 71 years and a day

2015-06-07 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
And we should never florget. I wrote the folllowing several years ago. Some of you may hjave seen it before. LITTLE BOATS AND 6 JUN 1944 By Wilton W. Strickland My brother, Lewis Clyde Strickland, then 21 and with 3 1/2 yrs in the US Navy, was the senior noncommissioned officer (NCO)/leader