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D-Day - What If the Greatest Generation were stuck with our generation's media?
Blackfive ^ | 6/5/07

Posted on 06/06/2007 1:10:06 PM PDT by bnelson44

The Combat Report put this video together to demonstrate what would happen if we saddled the greatest generation with our generation's media

As an antidote, go check out Mary Katherine Ham's post for D-Day. She honors one of my personal heroes, Major Dick Winters, and others with links and videos.

Speaking of Dick Winters, here's the "Band of Brothers" Day of Days video of Easy Company's Airborne Assault into France.


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To: bnelson44

I will never understand how the media can get away with editorializing news stories and downright lying. Isn’t there an agency or something that keeps them in check?


41 posted on 06/06/2007 4:25:52 PM PDT by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents or anyone just passing through)
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To: bnelson44
This is what’s going to happen now because of MSM!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845811/posts?page=20#20

42 posted on 06/06/2007 4:27:03 PM PDT by Chgogal (Vote Al Qaeda. Vote Democrat.)
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To: bws53
Of course, don’t forget how the media would have reported the “setbacks” in the Pacific - Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tarawa, et al.

Those weren't setbacks, but they were very costly victories. But you're right, the MSM would have deemed them defeats, just like they termed the decimation of the Viet Cong and defeat of the NVA during Tet '68 a defeat for the US.

And you know, IMHO, one of the main reasons they didn't do that then, is that we were allied, although not in the Pacific Theater, with Uncle Joe Stalin, hero to many in that day's MSM, both broadcast and print.

43 posted on 06/06/2007 4:31:24 PM PDT by El Gato (The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: bnelson44

>> What If the Greatest Generation were stuck with our generation’s media?

There would be no mercy.


44 posted on 06/06/2007 4:33:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: dfwgator
I think today’s media would have supported the invasion, because invading Normandy helped their beloved Soviet Union.

That's the reason many, but not all, of the media of the 1940s supported it.

Their support for intervention in WW-II prior to Dec 7 was in the negative, *until* Adolf broke his treaty with Uncle Joe and attacked Mother Russian. Then they were all for intervention, Lend Lease and so forth.

45 posted on 06/06/2007 4:34:52 PM PDT by El Gato (The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: rbosque

“We’d be eating fishheads and rice for Thanksgiving.” ............No, potato soup and 100 grams of bread, if you were one of the lucky ones.


46 posted on 06/06/2007 4:38:26 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Time to get your election bumper sticker ready. "Impeach Hillary 09".)
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To: El Gato
Allied Forces Kill Large Numbers of French Civilians And they did too. To the cheers of most Frenchmen.

The French Resistance was full of Communists, I'm sure they didn't mind potential post-war political opponents being killed if it helped their cause.

47 posted on 06/06/2007 4:51:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“President Bush today launched a major escalation in the already war-torn europe”


48 posted on 06/06/2007 6:25:11 PM PDT by omega4179 (El 43.o presidente de los Estados Unidos De Norteamérica Jorge W Bush)
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To: dfwgator

“Bush troop surge failing, 4000 US troops KIA in one day” “nazi defenses nearly impregnable” “shells overshoot beach, kill 30 French Civilians”


49 posted on 06/06/2007 6:26:57 PM PDT by omega4179 (El 43.o presidente de los Estados Unidos De Norteamérica Jorge W Bush)
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To: bnelson44

“Bush requests additional funds, war on europe costing 1b per day”


50 posted on 06/06/2007 6:32:36 PM PDT by omega4179 (El 43.o presidente de los Estados Unidos De Norteamérica Jorge W Bush)
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To: dfwgator

That quote is just job security. 100 Million Germans. 100 million Russian serfs with a few million more slave nationalities. Not a contest for an energetic German General.


51 posted on 06/06/2007 6:51:06 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: bws53

You forgot that the Soviets had a helluva lot of Lend-Lease support. Without the additional output of the US, the Soviets would have problems.


52 posted on 06/06/2007 6:58:01 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: bnelson44

bump


53 posted on 06/06/2007 7:21:06 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: kjo

God Bless the Greatest Generation. Only a strong war time leader should lead this nation and that is not anyone featured by the MSM or anyone in the Dem Party. That Party is invested in defeat and socialism.


54 posted on 06/06/2007 8:52:29 PM PDT by phillyfanatic ( w)
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To: El Gato

Sorry. I did not read your post earlier. It’s brilliant, it’s spot on, You have nailed it, and .... I could not have said it better myself.


55 posted on 06/09/2007 7:26:29 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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