ChrillerTheKiller
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That's legendary!
Aug 23, 2016 8:35 PM
ChrillerTheKiller
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thedissident
Sounds like something Cotton Hill would do.
icutthegrass
The face of zero fucks given.
AgamemnonsMemes
"The germans couldn't hold me and neither can you"
gnomedeplume
Staff reported suspicious mounds of dirt on lawn where veteran took regular walks and the entrance to a tunnel underneath his bed
Alcard
Wow it's 2014 again already?
QuantumEntangler
Gnosticmind
He died shortly after returning to England. I remember this story.
Wtfjosh2
Did he escape in a flying house powered by balloons?
MetalSkeletal
He left his last fuck in Normandy. GG old boy went back to retrieve it for the nursing staff.
CthuluIsMyHomie
Yep. 2 ducking years ago
CthuluIsMyHomie
I just... Hides under rock
Cheomesh
How you going to go and tell a D-Day vet they can't go do a god damn thing on this earth?
DanOrtega
Too many people think that war is ancient history, they regard it as almost fantasy.
mikenco
I contributed to a fund to bring him home. It was all very cool. He has passed now, this is an old story.
CaptainObvious15
I work for the ferry company, he was found when we had an extra passenger and given free travel for as many times as he wanted.
CaptGunpowder
The guy got through hella barbed wire and a bazillion machine guns; what made you think you could stop him?
IvanOnly
"Once more across the channel boys!"
ScottSterlingAWallThatCanFeelPain
OhMyGodTheyKilledBrianYouBastards
Anyone who tells an 89 year old d-day vet what he can do or not do needs an ass kicking.. I'll never go to a nursing home. I'd rather die.
Thisiscotty
i remember this. the guy died a few months later i think :(
RonSwansonIsMyHomeboy
His reaction to the staff:
D2sb
I hope I live that long, and become that cool.
AnotherLowski
I'm not hoping to be part of a D-Day-like experience. I want to live a boring life.
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
You could tell your grandkids what it was like before supreme overlord Trump rose to power
DosequisAlexx
Vote third party vote Jill Stein
Anonsy
"It was a lawless wasteland and he brought glory to our country. Now remember kids, pray 3 times a day in the direction of New York"
tjluv
It's sad how we treat our elderly sometimes. Let the dude live, man.
ImSorryFriend
We'll never know. Maybe it was just dumb rules that made them "stop" him, while pointing at the door, winking, and turning away.
UndercoverDumbledore
(They do day trips there, etc, staffed, he just wanted to go alone and he proved why the staff are needed!)
UndercoverDumbledore
I think the concern is more like the time my granddad escaped to the garden center and had to be picked up as he couldn't make the return.
glaug
You da REAL Hogan's Hero...
FinnTheHumanTorch
Fantastic show
glaug
It really was
NotACanadian
Shame about the guy that played Hogan tho
glaug
His sacrifice was not in vain
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
GalacticFederationOfTaint
Way to go Pops!!!
MetaVulture
He passed away 6 months later, and his wife followed a week after his death.
iswim
Oh God :-( Every time! I should never read the comments.
glaug
He'll sneak back, believe me
MetaVulture
If the hun couldn't keep him out, then who is Death to try?
PopatoMc
Droppin' the f bombs. (F for feels)
AcidExfoliate
"I broke out of Stalag Luft-B, you think Pleasant Hills Care and Hospice can keep me down, bitches?!"
NotaMormonbutlookslikeone
Am I the only one that thought that was a Captain America reference?
NZSheeps
*Sigh* "Mister Smith is trying to dig a tunnel from the rec room again. Should I tell him we're on the second floor?"
iswim
This comment made me nearly wet myself laughing. Thank you. I needed that +1
ThenameisWayneBruceWayne
Did you mean Luft-III, the one The Great Escape is based on?
AcidExfoliate
It's immaterial to the joke.
ThenameisWayneBruceWayne
I only tolerate historically accurate jokes.
ZzaLord
Hahah I like you.
ThenameisWayneBruceWayne
http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q798/djdavis516/shy-bashful-o_zpsbcc05d70.gif
DarthT15
My Great Grandfather escaped from Stalag 5A with 2 other prisoners, sadly the other 2 did not make it far.
theChesCat
My father's great uncle escaped from Stalag VIg, was caught back and sent to "the camps". Hard times.
JacobTheSquid
As a person named Luft I am now intrigued... Do I have a base?
FlyWithTheChris
No, but you're full of air.
shadowmech89
retgarr
You used to. http://ww2live.com/sites/default/files/images/20150508232111.jpg
JacobTheSquid
We can rebuild it... We have the technology!
FishingForConversation
I don't think we'd want to though...
retgarr
Actually, you still have several https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Force
FishingForConversation
Luftwaffe is a term that gets a bad wrap in the US, because of WW2, but it just means air force. I don't think that fact is taught to us
retgarr
Hell, I don't think I ever heard the term mentioned in school in the first place.
FishingForConversation
That's really sad.
CaptainObvious15
I work for the ferry company where he travelled, we found out at check-in when we had an extra passenger. The company allowed him to...
CaptainObvious15
Travel without a passport (you can joke that he didn't need one before but France does not care too much) , believe we just paid the fine..2
CaptainObvious15
The company offered him not only free travel for as many times as he wanted but also free accommodation and food on board. Sadly he passed 3
CaptainObvious15
Away 6 months later :( had the pleasure of speaking briefly with this gentlemen and will remember not only his sacrifice but his tenacity.
ringringringringringbananaphone
That is a bit like in the book "The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared"
ohyou5
That book was amazing!
RatoMolhado
That book is great and, after the Millennium trilogy, taught me Swedes also have humour sense!
swedeonamoose
Mfw anything swedish is mentioned on imgur
Efreeti
arrbos
That book was so great.
Efreeti
Loved the movie
IMasturbateToSnickersAds
You have horrible taste in movies.
Mildlygifted
Haven't read the book. It's probably better than the movie of it that I saw and loved
DevilsAdvocateHere
That was one badass generation.
Cheomesh
Chauvinists, homophones, and racists.
DevilsAdvocateHere
So I take it you are an illiterate, gay asain who is salty
DevilsAdvocateHere
Homophones- each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.......??
Pianosteve
fag- gay person, fag- cigarette, does this count as a homophobic homophone?
Cheomesh
Gah, ya got me. Should have read "homophobes". Such is life.
DevilsAdvocateHere
I hate when people correct me after I forget to proof read. We can both move on together
failphins2
Why should they assume you knew the difference? They don't know you. How can you learn without being corrected? Fools despise correction
PopatoMc
Not quite. Homophones are actually used by homosexual men for sending mating calls over further distances.
somenerandom
Some of them, yes. Just like the current generation has some. Every flock has its black sheep
MrFuzzer
Well because of social progression the new generation is less homophobic etc. But we should still look at each person as an individual.
MrFuzzer
The point thouhg is that the Good ole days really werent that good, and the further back you go the more true that is.
OliverKlozoff1269
This man should be able to go anywhere he damn well pleases. If it wasn't for him we'd all be eating wursts and strudel. Thank you sir.
vixvox
Nothing wrong with a big sausage.
Cheomesh
I already eat those things...
Jezebella
I like wursts and strudel.
tomyironmane
Because of folks like him we can eat Wurst and strudel as free men. Not slaves.
MetalSkeletal
Oh man. I could go for some strudel. Uh, I mean goddamn American freedom apple pie!!
ChameleonFacedGoon
damn commie
theguywithagame
fascist*
phonedog365
Oh, but die Würste are so much better. It's the goosestepping and genocide that sucks.
MrFuzzer
I think the staff just wants to keep him alive, its easy to just look at something one way. Try and think outside of the given narrative.
WKBetafiggit
Perhaps, but at 89 one should be able to trade a couple of the few years they have to live for some happiness
MrFuzzer
I dont know this case so its hard to speculate on how acute his state was. But he could be in immediate danger. I get your point though 1/2
DickDastardly404
That wouldn't really be the bad part, though
OaksParcel
Missed an opportunity to say "that wouldn't really be the wurst part".
DickDastardly404
Thanks for catching the ball I dropped
itsakidsbooksantiago
killer10347
hail hydra
DickDastardly404
Except the old boy is actually from the UK - Hove, near Brighton.
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AnjHans
America, fuck yeah!
DLVX
Was... The man has died last year.
NanoLol
Fuck ye brighton!!
failphins2
But when he's in costume he's not himself, he's the character. If the gif was of him outside the costume, then his birthplace would matter
DickDastardly404
Chris Evans = American... Captain America = EVEN MORE FUCKING AMERICAN. I don't get what you're trying to say tbh
failphins2
I thought you were saying Chris Evans was British, I didn't know where he was from so I took what I thought was your word for it.
DickDastardly404
"old boy" didn't tip you off that I was referring to the only old person involved in the thread? :P
theavengingewok
He's just saluting him, why does his nationality matter?
glaug
Even if he's British, he's still an American hero
AlexVedeem
Everyone can be an American hero if they try
EatDrinkFerk
Calm down Captain Imperialism
glaug
[American heroism intensifies]
EatDrinkFerk
[heh]
Xeneth
I mean the first American Hero's were British i.e. George Washington and the founding fathers