oldslabsides wrote: 
But imagine if we had real 3D with peripheral vision.... more of a virtual reality experience....

 jagdriver wrote: 
The beginning of the film Saving Private Ryan is as close as anyone who wasn't there is likely to get, and I'm certain it's a damn poor illustration of the reality.

 jagdriver wrote: 



It has become a bit of a cliche but the first 15-20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is about as close as anyone that was not there can get to knowing what it was like.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
I've made quite a study of this and still cannot fathom what it might have been like to be one of those bobbing about in an LST.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
D-Day.  A day that changed the world. The Atlantic's waters were red. Not many of those folks left. We each should find ways to keep their memories alive.

1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy

 DaveInVA wrote: 
A special part of my childhood growing up.  We could see it from where I lived on the east side of the bay.  Memories of crossing it in fog with the glow of the special sodium lights it had.  Ferry rides across the bay going by the bridge and Alcatraz, which was still open.  These ferry boats were what was used as the police station in Nash Bridges.  Being high up on a hill side where you could overlook the bay, see the fog roll in and fill up the entire basin, with the bridge disappearing except for the very tops poking above the fog.  Its was like someone dumped dry ice into the bay. The whole panarama of seeing the peaks of the hills poking about the fluffy and sometimes roiling fog under the bright sunlight above the fog... 

Its kinda mind boggling thinking back that it still pretty new when I was a kid.  Now its a majestic lady overlooking the Bay.

The Golden Gate Bridge, a wonder of the world for 75 years

Mt St Helens erupted, in 1980
 

 
 
And this is her today...
 

 hippiechick wrote: 
This gave me chills!  They probably had not registered what had just happened. It still profoundly shocks me that this happened in the USA.  That you were there is also chilling!  What a horrible wake up call.

Bob Marley passed away 31 years ago today.

‎"Good friends we have, good friends we have lost, along the way. " 

 

1945: VE Day

 Proclivities wrote: 
Yes, tear gas. Hard to remember anything that happened right before the shooting. 

 hippiechick wrote: 
Is it possible that those plumes of smoke were tear gas from before the firing began?

 hippiechick wrote: 
There is now evidence that an FBI paid informant fired the first shot. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
What happened was that all of a sudden everyone was shooting. Everyone being the National Guard. It happened in a matter of seconds. There was silence and disbelief. Then chaos.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yeah, I would say it's before the shooting, except for the smoke. Or everyone was really stunned, there were a few moments of dead silence.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 



Despite the fact they are in college people 18-22 don't always make the best/safest choice.



Not to imply that older people do. :)

 mzpro5 wrote: 
Yeah sorry but if there's gunplay I'm for running away. People get hurt watching baseball games. But I guess the smoke in the photo probably is from some "pre-gunfire" shenanigans, nothing to fear.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
The people whose backs you see were not the ones being fired on, but were a bit of a distance away.  There are some hills in that area and there were a number of "spectators" to what happened.