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peterd Exalted One Posts: 9,025	Operation Market Garden - Remember the Airborne Sept 17, 2011 8:56:53 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by peterd on Sept 17, 2011 8:56:53 GMT -8 September 17, 1944 Operation Market Garden was launched into Holland. www.rememberseptember44.com/rs44.htm
	THE TRENCHES. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vaaliantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who

101ABN Administrator "Be just, and fear not." Wm.Shakespeare Posts: 7,791	Operation Market Garden - Remember the Airborne Sept 17, 2011 10:16:51 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 101ABN on Sept 17, 2011 10:16:51 GMT -8 I should break out "A Bridge Too Far" tonight. Bless you boys!
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To remember Operation Market Gargen, every year Dutch organized death march from Eihoven to Arnheim/ In 80's many US units took part in the march. Each person had to 60 pound carry rucksack. Medics had field day with all the blisters.

THE TRENCHES.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vaaliantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who

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