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D-Day veteran reported missing by care home staff is found in Normandy
UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/06/2014 | Sophie Jane Evans

Posted on 06/06/2014 1:09:51 PM PDT by DFG

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To: DFG

Awe-inspiring! And I love thess line from the original article:

The mystery was solved when the care home received a phone call from another veteran saying he had met Mr Jordan on a coach on the way to France.

The caller said Mr Jordan would be coming home when he was ready


41 posted on 06/06/2014 3:41:49 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: beaversmom

It would make a wonderful premise for a movie!

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But, given the slime balls we have making movies today, the story would be ruined.


42 posted on 06/06/2014 3:43:49 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: Bigg Red

thess line = these lines


43 posted on 06/06/2014 3:52:17 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: All

It would be just too cool to find out that the old man was a pathfinder and sneaked into Normandy on the Fifth. The nursing home didn’t stand a a chance.


44 posted on 06/06/2014 4:07:03 PM PDT by Holdem Or Foldem (Life isn't fair, so wear a cup.)
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To: DFG

45 posted on 06/06/2014 5:14:45 PM PDT by Justice
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To: Bigg Red

Have to have an english outfit do it. I know a lot of them are liberal, but sometimes they are more endearing and intelligent than the ones over here.


46 posted on 06/06/2014 5:29:54 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: AnAmericanMother
“Sneaked” is correct. “Snuck” is a Southernism.

You are correct. When I lived in Alabama I heard it all the time and it just sounds right even today. I don't hear it here in Virginia but I have doubts that this is a Southern state anymore, either.

47 posted on 06/06/2014 5:45:39 PM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: Afterguard
Long English tradition of 'deserting to the Front' - thus Gunner Humberstall:

"‘Board or no Board, I ’adn’t the nerve to stay at ’ome—not with Mother chuckin’ ’erself round all three rooms like a rabbit every time the Gothas tried to get Victoria; an’ sister writin’ me aunts four pages about it next day. Not for me, thank you! till the war was over. So I slid out with a draft—they wasn’t particular in ’17, so long as the tally was correct—and I joined up again with our Circus somewhere at the back of Lar Pug Noy, I think it was.’"

- Kipling, "The Janeites"

One of Kipling's late short stories, notable for its sensitive treatment of PTSD (then known as "shell shock"), his use of the artifice of double stories-within-a-story, and his splendid command of dialect. And who else could tell a quite believable story about a former soldier in a Masonic Lodge, telling the narrator about his combat experiences in tandem with a Jane Austen appreciation society in a heavy artillery battery?

48 posted on 06/06/2014 6:11:04 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: OldPossum
Virginia was never the Deep South, having much too close a connection with D.C. As D.C. became more powerful, Virginia was sucked into its orbit, with predictable results.

SW Virginia is still very Southern, but more Mountainy Southern (like North Georgia and Western Carolina).

49 posted on 06/06/2014 6:23:47 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

That is true. I never hear what I consider to be a Southern “accent” here in central Virginia, and of course, there is not a whiff of any Southern speech in northern Virginia (a definite Yankee enclave).

Those two areas of Virginia cannot be considered as part of the South, IMHO.

As an aside, when I lived in the True South we never thought of Florida as being a Southern state despite its obvious geographic location. The Panhandle was an exception, we concluded.


50 posted on 06/06/2014 6:58:55 PM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: Vendome

Who is that beautiful young lady?

She's a cutie...

51 posted on 06/06/2014 7:44:20 PM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: China Clipper

Diana Falzone

Google her for even better photos

She’s hot and I got to her before Laz...


52 posted on 06/06/2014 7:52:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: OldPossum
Coastal Florida is a suburb of NYC.

Central Florida, like the Panhandle, is still Southern. We go down there for Hunting Tests for Retrievers with the Central Florida HRC. Good bunch of folks, and VERY southern!

53 posted on 06/07/2014 8:25:12 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Justice
Quite a debonair looking Man, then and now.
54 posted on 06/07/2014 8:29:50 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Cancer were Contagious, they would call it Liberalism...)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This topic was posted 6/6/2014, thanks DFG. We're getting the jump on it a day early, unlike the real jump, which was the paratroopers just after midnight on June 6th, 1944. Most of us weren't alive then, but regardless, don't believe we don't remember what everyone who was there did that day.
Link to another D-Day topic (link to post #10) which had already made it into the GGG, with most of the D-Day keyword (all but one topic), with a supplemental keyword (19440606) added in, duplicates out, also my sort knocks all the vetscor topics to the top (it's not that much of a problem, usually), so they're listed separately in the following post (#11).

55 posted on 06/05/2022 12:21:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: napscoordinator

“Snek”


56 posted on 06/05/2022 12:26:59 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: dljordan
"Were they keeping him prisoner?"

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"You are under the jurisdiction of me, the staff.”

57 posted on 06/05/2022 12:44:18 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: SunkenCiv

We have a friend who was on a Canadian ship at Normandy, I think it was a destroyer. He’s 96 now, so he must have been 16 yrs old then. He remembers rescuing soldiers out of the water. My brother in law accompanied him to Normandy a couple of times, including the 75th anniversary. The French treated him like an honored guest.


58 posted on 06/05/2022 12:57:11 PM PDT by Pelham (World War III is entering on cat's feet.)
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To: Pelham

I was going to make the comment that this guy escaping the nursing home must have attacked the beaches at the age of 11....but then I see that the article was written in 2014!


59 posted on 06/05/2022 4:02:58 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: gaijin
Are you listening, Hollywood..?

Great story.

Hollywood would only be interested if they could put some "woke" angle to the story - like he went to France looking to reunite with some brokeback buddy. They'd probably enlist Tom Selleck to play the part.

60 posted on 06/06/2022 3:40:48 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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