To: Smokin' Joe
Well, we didn’t have an Ernie Pyle in 1968. He was at Omaha Beach and threw up just like everyone else. But General Bradley “persuaded” him NOT to show the world that mess. He saw that the other beachheads had gone pretty well. So he went along. The Americans there happened to run into a German buzz saw called the 362. Good thing Rommel couldn’t get more such units there.
77 posted on
08/22/2010 2:29:26 PM PDT by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: RobbyS
The biggest difference was TV. Never before had the ability to so throughly distort reality been available to so many to be so widely distributed. Not even the newspapers could look at you with such gravitas and say " and that's the way it is..."
83 posted on
08/22/2010 2:35:30 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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