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Watch: Joint Base Pearl Harbor HI - VP Pence at Return of POWs
Live Satellite News ^

Posted on 08/01/2018 4:55:59 PM PDT by Blue Turtle

So powerful to watch POWs returning home. History...

(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coldwar; dmz; heroes; korea; koreanwar; military; northkorea; panmunjon; patriots; pearlharbor; pence; pow; pows; southkorea; truman; veterans; vets; vppence
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1 posted on 08/01/2018 4:55:59 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Blue Turtle

Watching now on FOX. It’s so moving


2 posted on 08/01/2018 4:57:20 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Blue Turtle

I’ll watch on You Tube tonite.


3 posted on 08/01/2018 4:59:45 PM PDT by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: Blue Turtle

Oh, there is nothing like coming home! God bless the fallen heroes.


4 posted on 08/01/2018 5:02:53 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: McGavin999

Me too,Checked out the others CNN MSNBC = MANAFORT


5 posted on 08/01/2018 5:03:58 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Blue Turtle

I am watching. I lost it. I cry and I have no shame in that. Words fail but thank you President Trump and Administration!


6 posted on 08/01/2018 5:06:05 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: McGavin999; Blue Turtle

This is a most special occasion, but I wish civic rituals likes these were more of a mainstream part of public consciousness. Our country needs it.


7 posted on 08/01/2018 5:07:02 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Blue Turtle

“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”


8 posted on 08/01/2018 5:07:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Blue Turtle

Such a moving ceremony. Thank you President Trump!


9 posted on 08/01/2018 5:17:10 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: McGavin999

That was awesome


10 posted on 08/01/2018 5:17:54 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It does. Years ago this would be carried on all the networks. We don’t even teach American History or Civics anymore.


11 posted on 08/01/2018 5:20:22 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: McGavin999
From President Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address:

An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.

But now, we're about to enter the nineties, and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom-freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important-why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, "we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did." Well, let's help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.

12 posted on 08/01/2018 5:31:13 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: shanover

“...I lost it. I cry and I have no shame in that. Words fail but thank you President Trump and Administration!...”
You’re not alone. I lost it as well.
If President Trump never did another thing, this event alone would warrant the biggest thank you a nation could provide. Thank you, President Trump.


13 posted on 08/01/2018 5:47:25 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What a special man he was.

Why can’t we require American History and Civics be taught in middle school and high school? They take our tax money, the least they could do is teach children what a precious gift they have been given. A gift purchased by the blood of patriots.


14 posted on 08/01/2018 5:48:18 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: McGavin999

Why can’t we require American History and Civics be taught in middle school and high school?


Well, I taught them in middle school, but now I’m retired. I grew up right after WWII and so knew all of these things as well as my own name. But my replacement had to learn these events in a history book and in fact really didn’t learn them until he started to teach. The cruel fact is, that time passes. What is “unforgettable” does, in fact get forgotten in a couple of generations. Guadalcanal, is barely mentioned in passing today’s history texts. The Korean War barely rates a mention.

I don’t think it’s necessarily an evil plot, although it could be, but just simply the passage of time. In the 50s, I didn’t learn as much about the Civil War as my dad did the the 30s when it was still (just barely) a part of living memory. The Viet Nam war will be the next to disappear.


15 posted on 08/01/2018 6:03:26 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: McGavin999

The first song the Band Played:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJFhTb1gi6Y

Lyrics

Going home, going home
I’m just going home
Quiet light, some still day
I’m just going home
It’s not far, just close by
Through an open door
Work all done, care laid by
Going to fear no more
Mother’s there expecting me
Father’s waiting, too
Lots of folk gathered there
All the friends I knew
All the friends I knew
I’m going home
Nothing’s lost, all’s gain
No more fret nor pain
No more stumbling on the way
No more longing for the day
Going to roam no more
Morning star lights the way
Restless dream all done
Shadows gone, break of day
Real life begun
There’s no break, there’s no end
Just a living on
Wide awake with a smile
Going on and on
Going home, going home I’m just going home
It’s not far, just close by
Through an open door
I am going home
I’m just going home Going home, going home

This is a big deal to me. The returning Men are Men that my father and the Men of The American Graves Registraion Service - MOS 92M - failed to retrieve during the retreat of Nov - Dec 1950.


16 posted on 08/01/2018 6:07:08 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

Listen to the song as you watch. Your monitor will get blurry.


17 posted on 08/01/2018 6:09:17 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

They also played Hymn to the Fallen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKU3b7rnvlQ

Many Korean War veterans were also WW II veterans. Play the following to anyone who lost someone in WWII and they’ll recognize it and probably leave the room in tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcYDasvbqI


18 posted on 08/01/2018 6:22:08 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: Blue Turtle

That was so moving. Thank you for the link.


19 posted on 08/01/2018 6:45:52 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UG5YoHcCAY


20 posted on 08/01/2018 7:11:22 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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