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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on June 06, 2010, 03:07:00 AM
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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us
an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.
SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, two hundred and twenty-five Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.
Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting, only ninety could still bear arms.
And behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. And these are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your "lives fought for life and left the vivid air signed with your honor."
President Ronald Reagan - 40th Anniv. D-Day
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Meh, so what. --Barack Obama, 66th Anniversary of D-Day
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My wife's great-uncle landed at Normandy three weeks after D-Day, with the 102nd Infantry Division. He hasn't told me much about his experiences--he was an Ordnance officer. I do know that he saw some stuff that wasn't the most pleasant. 92 years old, and he's doing so well at his age that he got rid of his walker last year. Still plays a mean game of horseshoes.
That generation was a great generation. The soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who follow in their footsteps today in the WOT are a special lot. Lefties will never understand.
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Meh, so what. --Barack Obama, 66th Anniversary of D-Day
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My wife's great-uncle landed at Normandy three weeks after D-Day, with the 102nd Infantry Division. He hasn't told me much about his experiences--he was an Ordnance officer. I do know that he saw some stuff that wasn't the most pleasant. 92 years old, and he's doing so well at his age that he got rid of his walker last year. Still plays a mean game of horseshoes.
That generation was a great generation. The soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who follow in their footsteps today in the WOT are a special lot. Lefties will never understand.
My grandfather on my dads side was a crew chief on one of the birds that dropped the 82nd over France on this day 66 years ago.
He made MSG before he got out and it's been my goal to match him in rank.
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2 maybe 3 times a week I spend an hour or so with a spry old gentleman that served in the 3rd Amoured Div. during WW2. I believe they landed a day or two after D-Day but he went all the way.
The stories he tells range from the comical to real tear jerkers.....to horror.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I[/youtube]
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The start of the liberation of Europe from Nazis Germany.
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WOW D-Day and all I am just SURE the White House is just a little behind schedule in making a comment on this 66 anniversary! :sarcasm:
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A great day to remember Freedom.
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WOW D-Day and all I am just SURE the White House is just a little behind schedule in making a comment on this 66 anniversary! :sarcasm:
Lord Zerø is not worthy enough to lick the boots of the men who charged the beaches, or any other of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom for that matter.
That said, a great day to remember, indeed.
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Lord Zerø is not worthy enough to lick the boots of the men who charged the beaches, or any other of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom for that matter.
That said, a great day to remember, indeed.
Notice that they didn't have any sort of press release or statement available today, did they? Guess he was just too tired from all his partying in Chicago over Memorial Day to recognize REAL American heroes.
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Google is doing their part to honor the sacrifice of those lost during D-Day.
(http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/srpr/logo1w.png)
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One of my uncles was a paratrooper who landed on D-Day. Since he and my dad were more than a decade apart in age and never close, I didn't meet him or hear his stories. But, here's to him and all the brave men who took part in the liberation of Europe. :cheersmate: :saluteaf:
If you haven't yet, and get a chance, take a tour of Normady and visit the landing beaches and Point du Hoc. We did that, and drove through the town of Bastogne on a separate trip. THEY haven't forgotten the sacrifices America made to obliterate Hitler and the Nazis; shameful to know that we have a current crop of Dems in power who, as another poster noted, have a meh reaction to the greatness of our nation.
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God bless the men who we honor today. God bless all of the men and women who proudly serve and defend our freedom.
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I had the privilege of meeting and talking to "Wild" Bill Guarnere, Babe Heffron, and Forest Guth, three of the original "Band of Brothers," 506th PIR. Mr. Guarnere and Mr. Guth--both Toccoa men--came to talk to my students on separate occasions. What amazing, humble men.
Mr. Guarnere, who earned a chestful of medals in WWII, including the Silver Star, and who lost his leg in Bastogne, hates to be called a hero. He'll look you right in the eye and say that the heros are the ones under those beautiful white crosses in Normandy and other cemetaries in Europe.
God bless those men. And may Mr. Guth rest in peace.
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I remember promos for a FNC special about MLB players who fought in WWII. Bob Feller was interviewed, and in the promo, he said words to the effect of, "People call me a hero. I'm not a hero--heroes don't come back from wars."
Nothing more need to be said.
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My FIL drove tank with Patton when we invaded Italy. After Patton was shipped off to cool his heals in England he became a truck driver and later part of the Red Ball Express. The only stories he ever told were of Italian and French wine, along with the grateful ladies of liberation.
He saw his share of combat, but never spoke of it. After Europe he saw limited action in the Pacific. He had weapons from both theaters. An 8mm Mauser, and a .25 or there abouts Japanese infantry rifle, along with a couple of Japanese Officers swords. He would become silent when asked how he obtained them.
Unfortunately after a life in the coal mines of WV, he passed about 5 years ago.
My immediate family were all too young to see the horrors of WWII up close and personal. I did have an Uncle that served on the Essex after the war.
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And in other news, still waiting for Obumbles to make a comment or statement regarding D-Day.
Hmmmm...still nothing on the White House website, either. Strange, that.
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Amazing that has been that long
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And in other news, still waiting for Obumbles to make a comment or statement regarding D-Day.
Hmmmm...still nothing on the White House website, either. Strange, that.
It fall on a weekend....and even the TOTUS has to have a day off now and then.
Did you really expect the bunch running Washington now to give a shit?.
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It fall on a weekend....and even the TOTUS has to have a day off now and then.
Did you really expect the bunch running Washington now to give a shit?.
He made time to have the members of the champion MLS team come in on Saturday.
Freakin SOCCER, fer Chrissakes.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/04/cherish-your-team
Not to mention he introduced the new DNI, and bashed BP a few thousand times.
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Not to mention he introduced the new DNI, and bashed BP a few thousand times.
C'mon, doncha know that's the new job description for the Pres? Screw pluggin' the well, we'll just sue the damn thing shut!