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003 Shots Fired
I realized something the other day. My birthday came and went without my noticing. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but the jump in time makes something like birthdays a bit odd to say the least. I should be seventy according to the calender. For those who are from further back in time than I, that dissonance only gets worse.
Incidentally, my birth coincides with something from my world known as the Normandy landings. A few years after the fall of France during the second World War, the Allies concocted a plan to free the nation from the hold of the Nazis. This incident has become known as D-Day, from the military term to indicate on what day an attack will happen. It is one of the most well known examples to the point where many Americans are probably not aware of other D-Days unless they are familiar with the way the military works.
D-Day was not a sweeping victory. The Allies lost more men than the Germans, but it was the boost that the Allies needed to start to reclaim land lost in the war. Everything about the mission had been carefully planned. The specific date was even chosen because it was a full moon and tides would be high. Had the order been given to delay the mission, the world might have become a very different place.
[After that history lesson, he fires off a message locked to Demyx and Schludig.]
I believe the three of us should work together on something. Call it leaving our mark on this region. Are you two interested?
Incidentally, my birth coincides with something from my world known as the Normandy landings. A few years after the fall of France during the second World War, the Allies concocted a plan to free the nation from the hold of the Nazis. This incident has become known as D-Day, from the military term to indicate on what day an attack will happen. It is one of the most well known examples to the point where many Americans are probably not aware of other D-Days unless they are familiar with the way the military works.
D-Day was not a sweeping victory. The Allies lost more men than the Germans, but it was the boost that the Allies needed to start to reclaim land lost in the war. Everything about the mission had been carefully planned. The specific date was even chosen because it was a full moon and tides would be high. Had the order been given to delay the mission, the world might have become a very different place.
[After that history lesson, he fires off a message locked to Demyx and Schludig.]
I believe the three of us should work together on something. Call it leaving our mark on this region. Are you two interested?
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[Most of his stories he could talk about are actually rather unpleasant, but he's not about to talk about the really dark things with Cynthia.]
Anything in particular you want to hear?
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how about a tale of someone winning against all odds??? i like those!!!
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I mentioned being born on D-Day, but I didn't mention what that involved.
When the Nazis started conquering most of Europe, America didn't get involved until very late into the way. The reason they entered the war at all was because Japan, an ally of Germany, attacked a naval base.
What I didn't mention in my story was how a group of five individuals were the ones to lead the charge. The leader of this group was a woman known as The Joy. At the time, she was nine months pregnant but she still stormed the shores despite being heavily pregnant.
She went into labor there on the battlefield while thousands of her allies were being shot and gave herself a cesarean. Conditions were not sanitary, and by all logic she should have bled to death and her child should have perished, but both mother and child survived the battle and she was named a hero.
The public never learned that she was with child. If it had, there would have undoubtedly been an uproar.
Still, she helped save the world that day.
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holy APRICORNS that is a great story!!!! wow, the joy sounds like a total grade A hero!!!!
i mean i sure knew that love could bloom on the battlefield but having a baby there is some serious dedication to heroism!!!
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It is, isn't it?
She was a real hero. Probably one of the only the world will ever see.
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But they do pop up from time to time.
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