A D-Day Veteran Politely Declines Obama Invitation

National Review Online ^ | 6 June 2014 11:08 AM | John Fund

[topher]

Brix, France — Some of the veterans attending the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings here in France have fascinating stories.

Take George Ciampa, the most vibrant and spry 89-year-old I have ever met. In 1944, he landed in Normandy as a soldier assigned to the 84th Graves Registration Unit. “I spent the next few years going from France to Germany helping to bury people,” he told me. He was involved in setting up the temporary military cemeteries in Normandy that have now become stirring memorials to our fallen dead.

[topher]

The article says that quite a few of the D-Day Veterans have issues with Obama, and do not want to meet with him...

[paterfamilias]

“The article says that quite a few of the D-Day Veterans have issues with Obama, and do not want to meet with him...”

That’s because they are STILL serving with Honor and Distinction.

[grobdriver]

Well why would they?

Obama is everything they fought against 70 years ago.

[MeshugeMikey]

i ave no use for zees hobama faylow

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

They don’t take too kindly to traitors, especially those that bar them from a WW2 memorial.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Damn he looks pretty good for 89. My father looks older than him and he’s only 74.

[Tupelo]

” he landed in Normandy as a soldier assigned to the 84th Graves Registration Unit. “I spent the next few years going from France to Germany helping to bury people,” “

A near and very dear friend was assigned to Graves Registration while in Korea. I can not imagine a worse job.
Even a PLO as Will Stockdale was would be preferable.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Wow, he looks amazing for 89.

[P-Marlowe]

Obama had to be in Normandy today.

Reminds me of a song.

“You’re where you should be all the time

“And when you’re not you’re with

“Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend....

[onedoug]

Who would shake the enemy’s hand?

[MeshugeMikey]

Im not certain of the age of the photograph but he looks remarkably healthy robust and of “good cheer”.

[heartwood]

Nah, it's because they're old racist white men going extinct.

/sarc /sarc /sarc

I get in SO much trouble for not giving sarcasm notice.

[beelzepug]

Boy, does it ever.

[MeshugeMikey]

I look as “mature” as he is,.... and Im only 68!

[topher]

To Honor our Veterans, this deserves to be Frontpage News

[MeshugeMikey]

http://www.normandytothebulge.be/GeorgeCiampa.html

great photos!!

[An.American.Expatriate]

THIS! “It’s not that we don’t want to respect the commander-in-chief,” one told me sadly. “It’s just that he makes it so hard to do so.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

The IRS will be visiting him soon.

[MeshugeMikey]

these photos were taken way..back in 2012 ;-}

http://www.normandytothebulge.be/GeorgeCiampa.html

he is truly remarkable

[billhilly]

A friend of mine served in Korea during the Vietnam War and when he rotated back to the States, he was assigned to a Guard unit in Virginia, and his duty was to accompany Chaplains when they went to notify families of their KIA and or MIA sons and daughters. I would not have been able to handle that duty.