InwardHardar

you didn't have 100 million illegals

"we rode in the back of cars without seatbelts all the time"

you didn't have 100 million illegals

"Mom didn't know where i was until i got home"

you didn't have 100 million illegals

"we didn't need to be able to call or text our parents all the time"

you didn't have 100 million illegals

"we could all drive at 16"

you didn't have 100 million illegals

"we could pay rent working part time"

Someone linked me this beautiful poster, and I'm just really impressed.

My contribution:

Someone linked me this beautiful poster, and I'm just really impressed.

My contribution:

"We know it looks like a butt plug, just drink the water, it's hot outside"

Little fish eats his foods 

The most vivid memory of the Market-Garden operation for Corporal Richard F. Turner was witnessing the crowd in Holland on the day liberation came to them. “On D plus 1 when Eindhoven was liberated, its inhabitants were crowding around asking for autographs and offering weak beer and thin ham sandwiches to show their appreciation. The looks on their faces made the whole operation worthwhile.”

Captain Robert F. Harwick wrote: “By early afternoon, the city was ours and we truly entered as conquerors and liberators. Those receptions are a thing to beggar description. If you can imagine all the spectators at an inaugural parade to suddenly swarm into, under and over the ranks - carrying fruit, pitchers of beer, sandwiches of dark bread or just waving Dutch flags or bits of orange cloth or just running, trying to touch you, everyone happily yelling at the tops of their lungs, begging for a souvenir - the flag armband, the eagle insignia, a bar or badge or anything.

“Formations became impossible. Officers tried to keep the men in line. We still expected trouble. But men were literally pulled into homes to be fed or just talked to.”

Gerard van Boeckel added to his story: “We gave the Americans tomatoes (the only produce available in the stores). They liked them. That day was like a dream. I got a K-ration with lemonade, biscuits, cigarettes (Camel, Phillip Morris, Lucky Strikes), chewing gum, stew and corned beef. We got scarves made from green parachute nylon, which they were wearing around their necks. We got U.S.A. flags worn on their upper arms.”

. . .Peter v.d. Hayden remembered, “The Americans were very friendly and gave us chocolate and chewing gum, also some biscuits we had never tasted before. They were delicious. They gave parachute silk to the girls, who used it for scarves. They gave so many things away that hardly anything was left for themselves.”