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2012-06-06 Europe

June 6, 1944 Always Remember

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Posted by Beavis 2012-06-06 09:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Strengthened by their courage and heartened by their value [valor] and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.

Thanks for posting this Beavis. These were ordinary men performing extraordinary acts of courage and bravery.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-06 10:03|| 2012-06-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 As an alternative to watching the latest movie, chalked full of commercials, I humbly suggest downloading the audio of Ambrose's D-Day.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-06-06 10:55|| 2012-06-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 When I wrote the date on my time sheet this morning, D-Day is the first thing I thought of.

Thanks to all the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen who saved us.

Posted by Barbara 2012-06-06 12:29|| 2012-06-06 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Every year about this time I read either Band of Brothers or Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose.

We send fine young men off to war. We had fine young men in Korea, Viet Nam, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Don't let the idiot press kid you, our soldiers, right now, are some of the finest I have ever seen. I wish I could have commanded a company of them.

When you watch the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, you wonder how in the hell we ever got off that beach. Omaha was horrible.

I was honored to go to Texas A&M, Earl Rudder, who lead the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc, was our President. He had a bulldog named Ranger that we all thought looked more like Earl than Earl. Fine man and I am proud he signed my diploma.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-06-06 23:29|| 2012-06-06 23:29|| Front Page Top

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