D-Day Remembered By Bush 43 & Obama

Flopping Aces ^ | 06-06-09 | Curt

[Starman417]

Go figure that the one day Obama doesn't talk about himself is during a D-Day tribute. Good for him, and us:

Over at Aarrggh there is a copy of an email sent to members of the Combined Joint Task Force 82, who are currently in Afghanistan, from the French:

To Combined Joint Task Force 82,

65 years ago, at 2h30 (French Local time), you jumped from hundreds of DAKOTAS in the dark skies over Normandie in order to liberate France and Europe.

That D-Day, you wrote the most glorious page of your history and the name of your Division is forever famous in France.

That D-Day, you and the allied forces met their rendezvous with destiny.

6 June 2009, Afghanistan; we are still brothers in arms.

We will never forget what you did on D-Day.

In the name of all the French soldiers embedded with CJTF-82, thank you for what you have done.

Today, in celebration of those events 65 years ago, we are "All Americans."

Airborne!

Ltc Pierre V. French LNO

And while Obama's speech was nice, there is one that many people have not seen because of the death of Ronald Reagan that same day. President Bush gave one that brought the people out of their seats in 2004:

[flattorney]

"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a trimphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.” - General George S. Patton Jr.

"Old Blood & Guts" final resting place at the head of 5,075 WWII U.S. Armed Forces graves at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg. It was a humbling experience when I visited the cemetery and George's grave on a business trip that allowed me to make a side trip to Luxembourg. It was my third major WWII European cemetery to visit. It's a beautiful place and a vivid reminder what it cost to have the freedoms we enjoy.

ABMC administers, operates, and maintains 24 permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil. Presently there are 124,913 U.S. war dead interred at these cemeteries. Eleven of the 24 cemeteries are located in France. There are 60,487 U.S. Armed Forces graves in France with another 7,063 names of the missing inscribed on the cemeteries’ walls and granite tablets. In the France, Belgium, and Luxembourg triangle there are 15 cemeteries with 79,252 graves and 8,389 missing inscribed names. Even if you don’t know much about U.S. war history, visiting cemeteries like Normandy, Lorraine, and Luxembourg will change your life.

From FlAttorney's FR "Straight Talk"

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