i would expect you guys to know this but its not unit 502, its the 502nd PIR (parachute infantry regiment)

​@@cliffbowlsis Iuu9⁹

I think the ending is cut short. The video cuts at 38:01 which is before the conclusion. Thanks for documenting history

God bless Ed ^^

Wow! Thank you for sharing this man's story from your pub 🍻🍻🍻. Cheers to him and to you for sharing.

my father crossed the rine river. He was in town when patton got in the accident. Or assassinated.

The lesson is don’t ignore the elderly

Lol most, these are the same men who were 40 year old cops in the 60s propping up jim crow laws (extremely rascist) in the American south, I know you were talking about your own countries vets.

Too bad you all didn’t try to get to know him

Pops?? It’s is “SIR”

SIR POPS ? It’s all love bro didn’t mean no harm sorry if I offended you .

@@djgynee - stfu, don't speak for him.

Calling an elder pops can be a greater honor than sir, depending on where your from lol

@@jboogie1764 - ikr, they act like they are all high and mighty. like buddy, they are still just human beings. yes, they deserve respect and recognition for all they did, but im still gonna call grandpa here pops. get over yourself, lmao

Your grandpa is still living?

If i ever meet one of these men i would probobly pass out from fan girling lmao. WWII vets are freaking super human. I have so much respect for these men

Ditto, man. My grandpa fought in the pacific and survived some horrible battles. Iwo, Saipan, Tinian, Kwajalein… and I never knew until my grandmother mentioned it. He never wanted to talk about it, so hearing these men speak for him means a lot.

Good to see he made it to 100. RIP Sir.

Rest In Peace we all thank you for your service 🙏❤️

What a patriot. Sure hope he was ready to meet the Lord.

It is so sad to lose national treasures like Ed and ALL the HEROS that served in WWII!!!

Thank you for your service sir. Rest in peace.

Definitely

Imagine when he was 22 during the war

Seen that old boy Tom rice did a parachute jump into Normandy and also Holland again, same place he jumped 75 years prior at 97 years old this time! These guys are serious business.

I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark alley. What a real bad ass.

Outstanding soldier!

Nothing good comes off the streets of ny

@@Wilson84KS indeed, he should have waited for those soldiers to have a chance to shoot at him first, and then ask politely if he could shoot back. After all, these were innocent nazi soldiers, men from a regime who always asked the jews and other civilians if they could slaughter them. I bet they would not kill him if given the chance, they would all be friends.

@@Wilson84KS Wars are always dirty, it causes PTSD's, it creates sociopaths, it makes killers out of random people. But there's no other way to deal with aggressors like the III Reich and I'm just glad that this man is not torn apart by all the experiences he lived when he was young. He did what he had to do to help defeating the nazis and survive the war, if he enjoys telling his war stories with a smile? Great, it means he is at peace with what he had to do and he has nothing to be ashamed of, for me he is a hero.

@Wilson That is a slap in the face to any veteran. You should be ashamed of yourself. He is one of the main reasons you can have the freedoms you have today.

For sure, these WWII vets had more to them than anything we have these days.

Mental toughness! It is what we are greatly lacking these days.

Thank YOU for your comment, sir. It was your word "BECAUSE" that brought a tear to my eyes. Our today, is BECAUSE of all those wonderful people like him ! We owe SO, SO much to them🙏🙏

Hell yeah and man he’s got a great smile as well for his age

Beautiful eyes still bright and such a wonderful smile

My “respect and gratitude” for men like this great soldier here!!

When was it?

Was this '71 or '72?

@@trevor5199 You know, I dont recall exactly. Maybe around 1975?? It was a small town so we only had a few of those guys anyway.

@@rudolphvalentino7181 Sorry, I'm not sure. See my answer above. Why do you ask?

@@billd.iniowa2263 ok thanks

Think you for this informations sorry for my writing i a m french ;). This man IS man of character and i Can see these eyes full émotions .very good man and this Friend soldats.beautifful live at lesson and méditer.god bless a this mister

I like this guy. That smile is infectious and he's happy to be telling the story. Imagine the things this guy has seen...

I know its terrible the world is gone to hell and nobody cares its awful to think these folk fought for there lives daily an liberated europe the free world as we know it and that world is a mess a nightmare actually

athletes ---- there is a overpaid crowd 😒

So true.

Was thinking the same thing. What a guy. More life in him than many way younger. Thank you for sharing the stories of these heroic men and the massive contribution they made.

Agreed 👍💯

Not ashamed at all go vote never matters more than now

The government was stolen from us in 1963, right after the Greatest Generation had first really come into power. Most of us just didn’t know it at the time. It still hasn’t dawned on many. Now it is up to us, the unworthiest generation of all, to take it back.

@@dwizzleusa4202😂😂 yeah, it hasn’t mattered in how many elections but some how it’ll matter now . Don’t be delusional

They were not taught this as patten and McArther said documents all of this because in 50 years they will never believed it happened. Still happens to this very day and it’s over religion and holy war- morden day causudes.

@@BB-rt9nc I can totally understand how you feel. We are living in tough times and everything is in chaos. We have left so much unchecked and unbalanced for so long that the powers that be have taken complete advantage of it as well as total control over us. But, I can tell you that thinking it doesn’t matter anymore is just one of the many things that went wrong along this countries journey to where we find ourselves today. It’s all hardly any one persons fault, but collectively I believe we have all played a small roll. I know that much has been done to all of us that is absolutely no fault of our own. Much has been done to keep our eyes focused on hating and killing each other, and keep our gaze off of the real enemy. Everyone watch this trick over here, all while we pull off the real magic trick right in front of your faces and take everything from you, and do whatever we want to do. Believe me when I say that I totally get where you’re coming from. This is in no way trying to downplay your comment or the validity of it. You have a solid point my friend, and I know that. I was the exact same way for a long time. I would just like to urge you not lose hope and try to come to the same road many others are in that it does matter. You, and everything about you matters a hell of a lot. You matter, your life matters, your voice matters, and all your opinions matter. I know it may not seem like they do sometimes, but they do. Don’t lose hope my friend. There are way more of us than there will ever be of them. The pendulum is swinging. Fight the good fight. God bless you and yours.

Passed on my birthday. Rip Ed. I could listen to WW2 vets all day.

German heroes

oooh we got a neocuck@@christianpalmer

​@@christianpalmerlol

My grandfsthers friend passed away recently- he was a brave white soldier who did his duty-God bless him

If America was threatened this old soldier would gear up and move out without hesitation 💪

Same here, most just stay quiet and stair off into oblivion like you don’t exist.

@@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 classless

Yeah, true sociopath.

Wilson....No, he went to another country to help liberate people from a murdering sociopathic tyrant. Learn some actual history.

@@patriciag7523 I know history pretty good, I know who and how they helped, the capital in first place, the whole world knows about your heroes, what they did and what they do all over the world endlessly, it's only you brain damadged by birth 'murricans that refuse reality and think obeying murderer are heroes, it was never the politicians who did and do violence and mass murder civilians, it always are policemen and soldiers, always, exclusively, it is just the propaganda that tells that the ones are terrorists and the others heros, and none of them ever did it because of idiologies, but just because it's their job, because if they refuse to obey, they lose their income and will watch their families die homeless from hunger, idiologies are only there for rationalization, but when they are done, they all are also psychologically done, those who are still humans, they suffer PTSD, but most also become sociopaths, just look in that face, how a human can still smile and laugh after he murdered other humans for no rational reason to himself, that never did anything to him? This only works if the murderes rationalization worked and he even came to the point that it is fun to him to kill people, also, ways more important in this case, because his self-esteem is built on being a murderer because the people around him party him as a hero for obeying and murder, which is only given in murricaville, in no other country people party soldiers as heros, they don't want to know armies even exist. In the end it was the russian army who ended the war, murricaville only profit from it so hard that they could end their cannibalism in front of ready to go food factories because the belief in the value of money came back after their heros massmurdered hundreds millions of innocent people all around the world and stole their land and resources and still do. Maybe your war should once come to you, so you can see what it means instead of sitting in front of your tv's, shove caramelized fried fat into you and see war as another entertaining show, freaking degenerates, ruled by teeth-faces, psychopaths on drugs, and can't even differ showing bleached teeth from smiling.

@@patriciag7523 someone needs sum cuddle time 🤣 U 🦔

Wilson .....blah, blah, blah.

Yes ! AMERICA is a REPUBLIC ❤️‍🔥

He didn't like being in crowds 😂

You were 7 in 1999? Me too! When is your birthday? Mine is in July.

@@jamesguidash9296 October my guy!

If I was good enough to play pro ball and got screwed out of it, I gotta say I'd be bitter. This guy's a hero

Lol

I love how he smiles through the whole interview, both good and bad!

Lol. No it was because the plane was being shot up with 30mm rounds from a pair of FW190's!

@@sandor7070 r/woooosh

😂

He "sold" it

@@samchs222yeah !!! 😊❤

I always appreciate seeing their service photos and wish they would include them in every episode. It really adds to the story to see them as they looked then.

Where do ya think the woke generation will take us? Scares me to consider the future with those turds

Starts with you.

@@theyangview1898 You bitch about it, what are you doing about it?

@@theyangview1898 You are right my friend, you are right. Really frightening.

Nope, we need to buckle up and do it ourselves. Let them be our inspiration.

I bet he’s happy with the current administration.

@@luthiervandros I don't think he is.

Roscoe, do you know him or of him?

@@shawnpa 😉

Was he able to tell you the stories in person

@@Thirst4livingwater sadly no my uncles and mother are the ones who told me what he did in ww2

Smart man! That's an incredible story

Very smart man, the mg was a hot gun

It took the germans 20-30 seconds to change barrels and i heard a story of a boat crewman who was in charge of lowering the landing plate, was that your grandpa? Crazy story… absolute heros

Buddy this guy has murdered other human beings u really think god will bless him?

I wish they played this stories in high schools , they are so inspiring … and now more than ever !!! The woke has brought so much confusion 😢

What a guy! I grew up with adults like this man, as neighbors and teachers. My young years growing up were secure ones!

Hey, we’re not speaking German

@@BB-rt9ncno , just dumb! We are all “ woke “😂

Charlie Kirk … a new wave of heroes “ what if we look back and saw that we were an inch away from victory ! And we gave up “ 😢

You believe they fought and died to prevent "woke"?

Dumb

Really dumb

You guys must not have been paying attention to the old man he said that as a joke but also as deep respect to his comrades that died. Markus was quoting him.

@@michaelneelin1847 just some more uneducated kids

I chuckled at that pays great respects to his fallen brethren someones gotta do the deed and ed was the man for the deeds

That generation were my parents, elders, and teachers...Thank God for my secure childhood!

It is great, but this is not his first time to tell it. It has been told over and over in his life. Not that it was rehearsed, but relived over and over.

My Dad saw Ike and MacArthur when they rode in the back of a car through Tokyo. He was proud of his service but he thought most Japanese were literally insane until we had an exchange student from Kyoto who I became good friends with staying our house a lot. He got to know Kazunori and was glad to see he was a good kid and totally sane lol