Posted on 06/06/2014 6:12:14 AM PDT by don-o
President Reagan's Address at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-day at Point-du-Hoc - 6/6/84.
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You know just about 145,000 WWII veterans of 12 million who served are still here with us.
It won’t be too many years before most who voted for Reagan will pass as well.
!984, re-election campaign, as I recall, 49 out of 50 states electoral colleges cast their vote for Reagan.
Only Minnesota voted for Mondale—he was a MN senator before he was Jimmuh’s vice-president.
I think that margin was unprecedented. But, I am getting old and I no longer have absolute faith in my memory.
I am listening to that right now.
The 80’s were the best years of my life.
I miss Reagan SO much!
Every June 6th, I make it a point to listen to this and to share it with others..When we had a man in the White House.
We had a real American in the white house. Now we got a piece of filth in the white hut that despises America, Americans and what we stand for.
It turns my stomach to see Oslimeball on the ground so many of our fathers died on.
We all miss him. Sometimes I think it was just a dream that we had someone to rescue America just one more time.
Reagan was a gift grom God. Hopefully not our last.
Amen to that!
You know just about 145,000 WWII veterans of 12 million who served are still here with us.
Over 16 million served and there are still about two million alive.
I did not know that, my statitics were from the media. Go figure. My Uncle died at the age of 92 in 2013. He was a Navy Ordnanceman. He built bombs. And we dropped them all over Europe and the Pacific Ocean. We won.
On this day, remembering all the men and women who served is what is important to all of us.
He was blind at the end but he could still tell a story, play the harmonica and he knew who everyone was.
His name was Melburn. He and my father would speak Norwegian sometimes. My dad was born here but his brother Melburn and and sister Thordis were not.
My grandparents did not speak Norwegian to their children.
Surviving U.S. veterans of World War II
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
16,112,566 individuals were members of the United States armed forces during World War II. There were 291,557 battle deaths, 113,842 other deaths in service (non-theater), and 670,846 non-mortal woundings. In November 2012, the Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that 1,462,809 American veterans from this war were still living.
God bless your uncle and all the others. My Dad was in the China-India-Burma Theater of War.
Yes, and God Bless you and yours.
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