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2004-04-26 Europe

U.S. GIs in British WWII Disaster Honored

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-26 12:18:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Penis Jennings, Danny Rather Stupid and Tommy "America's Greatest Degenerate" Brokaw would have gone public with the date of the D-Day landing and masturbated on-air to the Allies' carnage. Traitors NOW would have been traitors THEN. Piss on 'em....

Posted by Garrison 2004-04-26 12:59:38 AM|| 2004-04-26 12:59:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-04-26 8:44:23 AM|| 2004-04-26 8:44:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "We had lots of setbacks and mishaps in WWII. Wonder how the media today would have played this?"

Poorly. VERY poorly.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-04-26 9:00:23 AM|| 2004-04-26 9:00:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A poignant reminder that wars are fought by men and men make mistakes. It's just that in war, the price of a mistake is so much higher.

One benefit of an all-volunteer force is that the level of training is higher and the number of fatal mistakes correspondingly lower. Even so, "Eternal Father, strong to save...

Posted by RWV 2004-04-26 9:39:54 AM|| 2004-04-26 9:39:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Than you,
nobody does Loyalty and Honor like the British.

Posted by raptor 2004-04-26 10:36:49 AM|| 2004-04-26 10:36:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "nobody does Loyalty and Honor like the British"

Nice to know us Brits have changed our reputation ... once we were known as "Perfidious Albion" (for the Treaty of Utrecht, not our finest hour that.)

Posted by A 2004-04-26 11:29:12 AM|| 2004-04-26 11:29:12 AM|| Front Page Top

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