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France may have forgotten but Americans haven't. Semper Fi, Kelly
1 posted on 06/06/2005 4:03:16 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla
Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D.Eisenhower Broadcasts D-Day invasion order(click to listen)
2 posted on 06/06/2005 4:14:48 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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To: kellynla

GMCLRHUZGTSMI


Can you break the coded message above?

If the code breakers at Bletchly Park had not broken the Enigma code, the deaths on the D-Day beaches would have been vastly greater.

To break the code above go to: -

http://www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~russell/classes/enigma/enigma.html


The rotor settings and patches are the defaults (to make it very easy for you).

Type in the coded message on the grey keys and see what you get.


Have fun.


David (KHSZW)


4 posted on 06/06/2005 4:18:08 PM PDT by David Lane
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To: kellynla
This hangs in my kitchen, I'll never forget. Those American heroes are an inspiration to me daily.


5 posted on 06/06/2005 4:25:05 PM PDT by Vision (When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
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To: kellynla

While other's memory may fade, we will never forget. Their honor is written forever in the history of freedom.

6 posted on 06/06/2005 4:25:21 PM PDT by concentric circles
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If anyone has XM Radio, the 40s on 4 is commemorating the D-Day anniversary by having radio broadcasts from 61 years ago. It began at 12:41 AM (ET) last night (or early this morning) with the first bulletin and will run until 6 PM (ET) on Tuesday. They did this last year and it is amazing.


7 posted on 06/06/2005 4:37:43 PM PDT by good old days
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More D-Day info on this Freeper Foxhole thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1417249/posts

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


10 posted on 06/06/2005 4:59:37 PM PDT by alfa6
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The thing that strikes me about D-Day is that it would not be possible today, with all the advanced telecommunications, intelligence, radar, satellites, etc. that kind of attack just isn't possible, at least as a surprise.


11 posted on 06/06/2005 5:00:17 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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My Dad was a 22 year old LT (j.g.) commanding U.S. LCT 457. Landing Craft, Tank. Utah Beach. He had bulldozers and TNT on his boat.

A German round hit his boat right in the little office area. His jacket, draped over a chair, was filled with holes, and several cartons of cigarettes were 'Turned to snuff'. Lucky he wasn't there when it hit. He was busy out on the deck getting things done.

I often think about that, what he went through, because it took me all the way to age 24 before I ended up on Parris Island.

13 posted on 06/06/2005 5:28:12 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Jane Fonda might as well make her gravestone a urinal. Semper Fi)
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Point Du Hoc- Just one small part with a critical mission:

Point Du Hoc

RLTW!

18 posted on 06/06/2005 6:38:37 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: kellynla

God Bless all of those who fought, those who were wounded, and those who died for us and our liberty - especially this weekend, those of the Midway and Normandy battles - but also throughout the history of our nation.


19 posted on 06/06/2005 7:18:30 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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Today is also the anniversary of the Battle of Belleau Wood, in in which the US Marines halted Germany's spring offensive of 1918. This action may have saved France. In retrospect, I wonder if that was such a good thing?


20 posted on 06/06/2005 9:09:06 PM PDT by Taft in '52
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