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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." ~ Gen George S. Patton
1 posted on 08/06/2015 6:59:00 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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Astonishing how well preserved that film is. Any idea who had it, where it was kept?


2 posted on 08/06/2015 7:03:42 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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The commie lib college kiddies aren’t going to like this. Taxpayer dollars were used to pay for the film and the camera. There is going to be a lot of hysteria on the Berkeley campii when the little kiddies hear about this.


3 posted on 08/06/2015 7:03:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - King Obonzo)
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Remarkable.


4 posted on 08/06/2015 7:03:54 AM PDT by jumpingcholla34 (.)
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Thank God most of these men aren’t around to see what the current occupant of the White House is doing to the country they fought for.


5 posted on 08/06/2015 7:04:04 AM PDT by skeeter
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A rough sea state: look at all the rolling reflected in the movements of the priest and the men.

Look at the serious expressions of all those young men. They knew what they were in for.

God bless and keep them.

6 posted on 08/06/2015 7:04:46 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Wow.


7 posted on 08/06/2015 7:05:20 AM PDT by Claud
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They truly were America’s Greatest Generation.


10 posted on 08/06/2015 7:07:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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My Dad or Uncles could be in that crowd

its amusing how they are swaying in unison with the rolling of the ship, like some choreographed dance going on in the Mass. You never see that in church!


12 posted on 08/06/2015 7:11:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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Saw the other night on PBS (I believe) a documentary on Bill Genaust, one of movie photogs assigned by the Army to film the battle on Iwo Jima. He recorded like 14 reels of color footage before himself was killed flushing out the enemy from a cave. His most famous clip is the raising of the second American flag on Iwo Jima. Good stuff.
13 posted on 08/06/2015 7:12:32 AM PDT by sjm_888
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Bump


15 posted on 08/06/2015 7:18:10 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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Wow!


16 posted on 08/06/2015 7:21:15 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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PFL


17 posted on 08/06/2015 7:21:41 AM PDT by Batman11 (The orange, weeping, drunk, squishy oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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I have a photograph on the wall at home showing my Dad receiving communion at sea while on convoy duty in the No. Atlantic in 1942. He was radio operator on a Q ship. He said it had been rough for days, but the Atlantic went flat calm when the Mass started.


18 posted on 08/06/2015 7:24:38 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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bump


20 posted on 08/06/2015 7:56:58 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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I look at all those faces and realize that many of them would not live another two weeks.

God bless them and their memory.


22 posted on 08/06/2015 8:05:39 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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Extraordinary find. Thank you so much! Jesus Lives in the Eucharist!! .. ♥
24 posted on 08/06/2015 8:30:52 AM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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Thank you. It was inspiring. My father and uncles were in WW 2.


26 posted on 08/06/2015 11:56:51 PM PDT by johngrace ( I am a 1 John 4! Christian- declared at every Sunday Mass , Divine Mercy and Rosary prayers!)
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