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A D-Day Veteran Politely Declines Obama Invitation
National Review Online ^
| 6 June 2014 11:08 AM
| John Fund
Posted on 06/06/2014 9:10:10 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dday; dday70thanniv; ddayanniv; ddayanniversary; ddayveterans; ddayvets; obama; va
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To: topher
> as a soldier assigned to the 84th Graves Registration Unit
Maybe he thinks that Obama is going to address him as “corpse man”.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:28:20 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: MeshugeMikey
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
“His secret? Be active.”
theres a big big part of it!!!
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:33:03 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: MeshugeMikey; Tupelo; GrandJediMasterYoda; sinsofsolarempirefan
There is this picture from his website that might be from 2001 when he went to Belgium with his daughter.
I believe the picture believe the picture below is from 2001...
Maybe there will be some pictures today in the news of him...
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:36:33 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: topher
An historic video showing an old French man standing on the side of a street was in tears as he watched the German military move through the streets of Paris after France was lost to the Nazis in WW2. As long as the fraud obozo remains in the WH and I'm sure I'm not alone, but I can certainly relate to how that old man felt.
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To: topher; ken5050; george76; Joe 6-pack; TigersEye; Old Sarge; trisham; Darksheare; Chode; bray; ...
God bless these aging Vets.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:38:30 AM PDT
by
potlatch
("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
To: topher
Yes, and that spinning sound you heard was from the vicinity of Patton’s grave ...
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:39:10 AM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: topher
I cant see how he’d not be featured in a number of articles!!
Thank you
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:40:15 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: potlatch
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:41:20 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: potlatch
You did a beautiful job, potlatch. :`)
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:42:54 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
To: B4Ranch
Apparently pretty much none of that is true. Marvin was wounded at Saipan and received the Purple Heart. Captain Kangaroo wasn’t an NCO buddy of his, and Mr. Rogers never served in the military.
To: topher
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:44:36 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: george76
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:47:49 AM PDT
by
potlatch
("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
To: TigersEye
Thank you T.E.
Made it years ago - important to always repost it.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:49:53 AM PDT
by
potlatch
("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
To: B4Ranch
Keeshan, Marvin, Mr. Rogers...all urban legend.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:51:15 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
To: Fast Moving Angel
I know Gen. Patton was buried in the Third Army Cemetery in Luxembourg originally. But I thought I read somewhere that he was eventually reinterred in the United States. Anyone know anything about that?
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:52:34 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: potlatch
Beautiful post, Potlatch. Those songs make me tear up every time.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:55:10 AM PDT
by
ntnychik
To: Tupelo
My neighbor was assigned to Graves Registration in France near the end of WWII, after training as a paratrooper at the age of 17 in the summer of 1944. By the time he made it to Europe, replacements were being sent where needed regardless of MOS. He was part of a team that disenterred bodies from combat grave sites to be placed in designated cemetaries in France and Belgium. The were issued daily whiskey rations and fresh uniforms on a regular basis to deaden the gruesomeness and get rid of the stench of death. He was there until 1947.
When the Korean War broke out, he was recalled to active duty and was told that he was being assigned to Graves Registration, based on his prior experience. His reply- "No way in hell will I do that again". The Army's reply- " Well, then we'll send you to the stockade". His reply- "Fine by me..." . He was assigned to the Infantry instead, which was what he was trained for originally anyway. He went on to serve in combat in Korea for 13 months and got to meet the Chinese up close and personal.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:57:46 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: ErnBatavia; Future Snake Eater
I sent a request for it to be pulled. Still waiting on the Mod to follow up.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:59:55 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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