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D-DAY - June 6, 1944: the greatest generation saved the world from the Nazis
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Posted on 06/05/2009 6:44:25 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: FMBass
Sounds like your dad was an amazing man.
My great-uncle Art was a nurse at a field hospital in England that cared for many of the casualties from the Normandy invasion. The courage of those men who willingly charged the gates of he!! to free a continent and protect their homeland is truly amazing.
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posted on
06/05/2009 8:51:14 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
To: doug from upland
D Day was a very important battle in WW II and of course should be honored but to say the Nazis lost it all on that day is to forget the real decisive battles in Russia that truly destroyed the bulk of the Wehrmacht. The Kursk salient probably being the most decisive of all.
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posted on
06/05/2009 8:56:25 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
When you think about it, it is really a sobering thought that those men charged into battle knowing that they would be more than likely be killed.
It wasn’t much different than the old “kneel in front of the enemy, fire and let the next line do the same” until we beat the enemy.
I had uncles and a father that fought in WWII. Some came back, some did not. One at Omaha. One at Anzio. One at Iwo Jima.
Very, very brave men.
My head will always be bowed to them.
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posted on
06/05/2009 8:58:39 PM PDT
by
berdie
(Philosophies of the school room in one generation will reflect the government philosophy of the next)
To: Lancey Howard
Thanks for sharing this great story.
They were the greatest generation, and we will not see their likes again.
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posted on
06/05/2009 8:59:22 PM PDT
by
Cincinna
(TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
To: reefdiver
Only 52 per cent in the election didn’t realize the gift.
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:02:10 PM PDT
by
berdie
(Philosophies of the school room in one generation will reflect the government philosophy of the next)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
It is a hell that is almost unimaginable.
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:20:01 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
To: SlowBoat407
Incredible. Please share photos and a lengthy story.
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:22:30 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
To: xp38
I understand, but imagine if all the sacrifice at Normandy would have resulted in being totally pushed back. The consequences would have been very, very dire.
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:24:34 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
To: potlatch
.
I had a webpage full once
Remember?
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:39:03 PM PDT
by
devolve
( . . . . . . . . Obama confiscated Teacher & Police Union pension funds? . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
To: devolve
More than one, but one particular one I loved with tiny gifs. - long ago.
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:44:49 PM PDT
by
potlatch
( When You Change The Way You Look At Things - The Things You Look At Change)
To: swmobuffalo
Ummm - I think not. According to the article you direct us to “The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead” - the number of Allied includes the UK Canada Australia, etc. I was referring to Americans.
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posted on
06/05/2009 9:53:46 PM PDT
by
Jolla
To: potlatch
A noble salute to an epic sacrifice.
Hey, you know what I think of pukes who go to foreign countries to apologize for the imagined sins of this one. . . .
. . . .I think they should go tell those who did more than read teleprompters.
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:00:36 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
To: Cincinna
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:27:38 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(ECCE homo)
To: xp38
Until the second Front was established, the victory of Soviet Arms was not assured.
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:32:43 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(ECCE homo)
To: doug from upland
Indeed. The sacrifice should always be honored. What I like now as a direct result of Reagan and the fall of the Soviet Union is that a church now stands on one of the Kursk battlefields in honor of the fallen Russians. An unimaginable thing prior to him becoming President.
Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul built in 1994-1995 to commemorate the Battle of Prokhorovka
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:42:59 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Interesting Times; Travis McGee; Grampa Dave; ...
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posted on
06/05/2009 11:12:53 PM PDT
by
devolve
( . . . . . . . . Obama confiscated Teacher & Police Union pension funds? . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
To: devolve
Do you not have it anymore? My father was in the medical detachment of the 32 Armored Regiment and was at Normandy. He died when I was very young, and I’ve always wanted to find out about him and his unit. I couldn’t talk to him, and the building containing his military records burned.
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posted on
06/06/2009 3:16:00 AM PDT
by
Humal
To: devolve; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; Interesting Times; Travis McGee; Grampa Dave
Historic D-Day bump! bump! bump!
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posted on
06/06/2009 5:27:55 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
To: xp38
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posted on
06/06/2009 6:50:08 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
To: All
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posted on
06/06/2009 6:55:40 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
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