I forgot to mention the prayers. Those are very important to me. I have a long list of forum members on it. I may not always go line by line but he knows what is in my heart and mind.
The power of prayer, man the miracles that I have witnessed.
Not only with myself but also my mother a while back.
Sheās the reason I started the prayer forum in here to begin with.
Iāve seen others in here testify to healings of themselves or family members yourself included.
God is great and there is strength in numbers you know.
I keep saying Iāve never been religious and donāt go to church but if I type something in here that helps a single individual in the smallest way then I truly believe thatās what the Lord is telling me to do. I can feel it 
If I become overbearing or say too much yāall please let me know.
I donāt want to be, that guy.
I believe it is too. Personally I donāt think that you are overbearing. I canāt go to church but I do watch my pastor on YouTube. I am not supposed to be in large crowds or just crowded place per my Pulminologistās orders. I just got finished texting Allen and Harold the below text.
It is amazing how many of us that the Lord has put together on the forum that have the same likes, beliefs, struggles, understanding and life experiences. He knows what our needs are and he made it possible by working in the lives of others and putting the desire and commitment to start the PSA forum.
Yeah I canāt do crowds either because Iām immunocompromised.
When I do get out I wear a mask on purpose hopefully to keep people away from me.
The text you just sent is almost identical to the same thing I posted yesterday or the day before in here somewhere.
What a beautiful blessing it is for us to be put here together.
The Lord works in mysterious ways 
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That statement has more truth in it than most people today believe. On bad days I try to remember that we donāt know what his plans are for us. During those long tedious days, weeks and months in the hospital when I physically couldnāt do anything or even communicate I kept that thought in my mind. The Lord and I had plenty of time to talk. I couldnāt communicate with other people but as usual you always have one that you can talk to anytime you want.
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Utah beach and Sword Beach were two other landing sites. D-Day was Operation Overlord. For months prior to D-Day, troops amassed at a point on England to make the German High Command believe that we would land at Calais, France. We made hundreds of full size fake plywood planes, tanks; etc. The Germans bought it, and concentrated their forces at Calais. If the had not been duped we would have faced much more resistance than we did.
God bless those brave souls for their sacrifice and determination. 
Thank you Leonard for filling in the gaps in my memory. I had the general info and you filled in the finer points. I think that I have shown it before but I have an original silk map of Europe from WWII in my gun room. Air crews would carry the map on them incase they were shot down behind enemy lines. Being silk they were very strong and you didnāt have to worry about it tearing or folding it up. They could wad it up and put it in a pocket. It is the same silk map that my Grandfather carried. It was important for them to have. It isnāt very detailed but it gives you enough info to try and E&E. The air crews in the European Theater flew missions all over Europe. My Grandfather said that they dreaded bombing certain German cities because of the large amount of antiaircraft gun towers all over the these cities. The few main cities that I remember him saying was the worse and they dreaded the most was Hamburg, Dresden, Vienna and the absolute worst was of course Berlin. Berlin had antiaircraft towers all over the entire city. It was just like shooting skeet to the antiaircraft gunners. The flak was so thick at times that it would shred their plane. As long as it didāt get into multiple engines or hit several of the hydraulic lines the plane could fly. When the antiaircraft rounds exploded they sent flak in all directions. He did say that he had tremendous respect for the B17. The large amount of damage that they could sustain and still fly was amazing. So many times the damaged planes had to try and limp back home. The crews in the damaged planes knew that they were sitting ducks to the German fighters.
When on a bombing mission you were assigned to a flight group that left England at a specific time. Your group had a specific route and altitude to fly at. The groups were spaced out, staggered and flying at different attitudes.
If you flew into the turbulence left by one of the flight groups ahead of you there was a good chance that the plane would loose lift and go into a steep dive. If the pilot couldnāt recover and level out the plane it would hit the ground at full throttle in a nose dive. The crew didnāt have enough time escape the plane. Even if they could escape the plane they were going so fast when they existed the plane that even if they had time to deploy their parachute it wouldnāt matter. They were falling so fast exiting the plane that it would rip your parachute to shreds when it tried to open.
This reminds me of one of the oldest C130 from the Puerto Rico Air National Guard that crashed right outside of Savannah, Ga. It hit very close to the railroad tracks. In the below picture what you see is the entire C130 before anything was cleaned up. Between hitting the ground and it burning what you see is all that was left of the C130. It literally disintegrated. To the far left of the picture you see two of the CSXT main lines. I saw the crash right after the fire was being put out
There were so many things that I didnāt think about or consider. At high altitudes they had to wear heavy insulated leather bibs, the heavy lined leather flight jacket, heavy gloves and a insulated leather flight cap. The planes werenāt sealed and didnāt have cabin pressure. They would be flying so high thst they had to wear an oxygen mask. Talking to my Grandfather I really began to understand just how difficult and how dangerous those missions. If you survived all of that you still had enemy fighter aircraft to deal with. The fighter planes were a smaller target, flying faster, more nimble and could gain or loose altitude quicker than the large B17 bombers could. It was just about like a sports car going up against a limousine. I forgot that I put it on my safe and had a picture of the map.
Once you get to 40, 000ā and above the outside ambient temp is pretty much -60 deg F. Crazier still? At least one AC platform (Spook Gear) that the Israelis are likely using today needs air conditioning at that flight level with the gear turned on.
Donāt ask me how I know.
I actually thought it was the opposite. Iām not too religious. I wasnt brought up like that. Later Mom became very religious, but it wasnāt in me. She still hates that to this day. I just say āmom, you were there when I was growing up. Nothing we did was religious. Iām shaped the way I am now, why would I change?ā
Iāve tried multiple times over the years. I never see or feel anything so I continue on with my life.