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My D-Day Vacation
The EIB Network ^ | June 6, 2013 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 06/06/2013 5:07:02 AM PDT by Biggirl

RUSH: I do want to tell you a couple things about my vacation. I had a couple of fascinating trips. I don't expect anybody to understand this. I really don't. I debated whether or not to even mention or make a big deal out of it. But we went places, Kathryn and I did, hoping that nobody would have ever heard of me. That, to us, was peace -- nobody caring who we were, where we were going, what we were saying, what we were doing -- and it happened. Nobody cared.

(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dday; france; normandy

1 posted on 06/06/2013 5:07:02 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Thanks for posting. Very emotional article. My father in law was at Utah beach...RIP.


2 posted on 06/06/2013 5:27:55 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Biggirl
My wife and I spent a day in Normandy in 1999. We rode the train from Paris to Caen, and took a private tour from the D-Day museum for most of the day. It really is an incredible place to visit; bomb craters are still visible all over the place and most of the concrete bunkers are basically like they were during the war. You can see the pockmarks where the rangers tossed in grenades.

A German family was part of our tour party - after the tour was over I asked our guide (lifetime resident of Caen and a former history professor) how she felt about Germans today, given what they did to France during the war. She said she didn't mind them - it was the British they hated!

3 posted on 06/06/2013 5:28:48 AM PDT by notsofastmyfriend (He is the life of parties he has never attended...)
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To: Biggirl

That is a great read.


4 posted on 06/06/2013 5:35:56 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Biggirl

Thanks for posting this.

Reading Stephen Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers” and then going to Normandy, spending a few days there, and around this same time of year, I hear Rush, here, loud and clear.

I know he was glad to go in the anonymous state; incognito.

Touring the villages, where the Airborne took Normandy from the other side, closing in, is an important part of the trip.

We were in a Catholic church in, probably St. Mere Eglise, and I looked up to see about what symbols they had on the stained glass windows, wondering what saints they took patronage in, and the images were not saints nor the Holy Family, nor the Trinity, but they were images of paratroopers falling gracefully.

The windows had been blown out by the bombs and they were replaced, by the French locals, with images of paratroopers, Americans.

WE stayed in a wonderful farmhouse B&B, whose owner’s family had been there all these years.

The whole place is preserved. It’s a museum

The bunkers are still at the beach.

One of the best parts of the trip: our traveling companion could not locate a Burger King. Stuck with French food that Americans hate.

I don’t know, sole, with béchamel sauce and wine with lunch, French burgers with fries and salad with red wine, overlooking the English Channel, and my fond fellow Americans are turning up their noses to “green stuff”

Well, God Bless our heroic DDay troops, my uncle Mike O’Connor and God Bless the USA.

Let’s see if we can’t get someone other than that horrible BO to go over for us next year for year 70.


5 posted on 06/06/2013 5:39:09 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Biggirl
I can't afford a trip to Normandy, but in my own little tribute to the men who breached Fortress Europe 69 years ago, I've worn my brown Corcoran Jump Boots to work today...


6 posted on 06/06/2013 5:39:43 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Look for the movie “Saving Private Ryan” to gain currency this coming weekend.


7 posted on 06/06/2013 5:44:34 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

Great read!


8 posted on 06/06/2013 5:55:39 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......")
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To: Biggirl
If folks have never been I recommend talking the time to see the National D-Day Memorial (http://www.dday.org/) in Bedford Virginia. It's an awesome memorial with a lot of visuals:


9 posted on 06/06/2013 6:19:53 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: stanne
Let’s see if we can’t get someone other than that horrible BO to go over for us next year for year 70.

Somehow I think he'll be otherwise occupied.

Golfing, or something.

He's not interested in honoring Americans immeasurably more worthy than he is.

10 posted on 06/06/2013 6:35:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

I wish I had visited when I was younger. But then I was “stupider” too. Can’t afford it now but I probably would be an emotional wreck if I went now. We did all the DC memorials a few years back just after the finished the WWII memorial. I was a wreck then. Especially at the wall. So many brave folks gave it all. I only gave up one tour in the Navy and just looking at those memorials enhanced my feeling of honor for having served. Thanks to all who gave all.


11 posted on 06/06/2013 6:41:02 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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I took my family there nine years ago. We stayed in Bayeux and had a local guy drive us around.

I've been surprised by the compactness of other battlefields I've visited but the scale of this place was awesome.

12 posted on 06/06/2013 6:59:23 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Biggirl

An even better perspective on the whole Invasion can be seen in “The Longest Day.” the actual assault on the beaches only comes about half way through, the rest being the build up, the bombers and gliders, etc. the beach assault was vital, but was only one facet.

Cheers,
Jim


13 posted on 06/06/2013 7:00:05 AM PDT by gymbeau (Tagline too lame (er, physically challenged) to include.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
For those of you near Chicago, the Cantigny Park museum has a great tribute to the First Division including a life size Normandy diorama:
http://www.cantigny.org/museums/firstdivision.aspx

14 posted on 06/06/2013 7:13:48 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: skeeter

Amazing how different the rural French are compared to the parisians.


15 posted on 06/06/2013 7:14:44 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Biggirl
Look for the movie “Saving Private Ryan” to gain currency this coming weekend.

Funny you should mention that... I am hosting six of my college age gymnasts tonight for a "Saving Private Ryan" screening.

We have a beautiful home theater, and I can't think of any better way to introduce these kids to the sacrifices made for them than by screening this movie.

16 posted on 06/06/2013 7:29:20 AM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: jaydubya2

Thx...will check it out.


17 posted on 06/07/2013 12:06:42 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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