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A D-Day Veteran Politely Declines Obama Invitation
National Review Online ^
| 6 June 2014 11:08 AM
| John Fund
Posted on 06/06/2014 9:10:10 AM PDT by topher
Brix, France Some of the veterans attending the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings here in France have fascinating stories.
Take George Ciampa, the most vibrant and spry 89-year-old I have ever met. In 1944, he landed in Normandy as a soldier assigned to the 84th Graves Registration Unit. I spent the next few years going from France to Germany helping to bury people, he told me. He was involved in setting up the temporary military cemeteries in Normandy that have now become stirring memorials to our fallen dead.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dday; dday70thanniv; ddayanniv; ddayanniversary; ddayveterans; ddayvets; obama; va
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The article says that quite a few of the D-Day Veterans have issues with Obama, and do not want to meet with him...
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:10:10 AM PDT
by
topher
To: topher
“The article says that quite a few of the D-Day Veterans have issues with Obama, and do not want to meet with him...”
That’s because they are STILL serving with Honor and Distinction.
To: topher
Well why
would they?
Obama is everything they fought against 70 years ago.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:13:45 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: topher
i ave no use for zees hobama faylow
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:14:06 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: topher
They don’t take too kindly to traitors, especially those that bar them from a WW2 memorial.
To: MeshugeMikey
Damn he looks pretty good for 89. My father looks older than him and he’s only 74.
To: topher
” he landed in Normandy as a soldier assigned to the 84th Graves Registration Unit. I spent the next few years going from France to Germany helping to bury people, “
A near and very dear friend was assigned to Graves Registration while in Korea. I can not imagine a worse job.
Even a PLO as Will Stockdale was would be preferable.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:17:42 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
To: MeshugeMikey
Wow, he looks amazing for 89.
To: topher
Obama had to be in Normandy today.
Reminds me of a song.
“You’re where you should be all the time
“And when you’re not you’re with
“Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend....
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:19:33 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: topher
Who would shake the enemy’s hand?
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:21:18 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Im not certain of the age of the photograph but he looks remarkably healthy robust and of “good cheer”.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:22:20 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: paterfamilias
Nah, it's because they're old racist white men going extinct.
/sarc /sarc /sarc
I get in SO much trouble for not giving sarcasm notice.
To: P-Marlowe
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:23:22 AM PDT
by
beelzepug
(You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I look as “mature” as he is,.... and Im only 68!
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:23:33 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: topher
To Honor our Veterans, this deserves to be Frontpage News
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:26:38 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: topher
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:26:53 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: topher
THIS! Its not that we dont want to respect the commander-in-chief, one told me sadly. Its just that he makes it so hard to do so.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:27:01 AM PDT
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: topher
The IRS will be visiting him soon.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:27:27 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: sinsofsolarempirefan
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:27:56 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: Tupelo
A friend of mine served in Korea during the Vietnam War and when he rotated back to the States, he was assigned to a Guard unit in Virginia, and his duty was to accompany Chaplains when they went to notify families of their KIA and or MIA sons and daughters. I would not have been able to handle that duty.
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posted on
06/06/2014 9:27:57 AM PDT
by
billhilly
(Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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