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Government Shutdown Spreds to Beaches of Normandy
New York Post ^ | October 2, 2013 | AP

Posted on 10/03/2013 6:50:52 AM PDT by yldstrk

PARIS — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown.

The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.

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To: mass55th

We’re traveling from Paris to Normandy along the Seine.


41 posted on 10/03/2013 8:15:34 AM PDT by surrey
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To: silverleaf

While our national monuments and the White House are secure from trespass by Americans, one thing remains unchanged: our southwestern border remains unbarrycaded, unbarackaded.

Has Obama finally achieved his goal yet of changing/transforming America? Or does that not happen until we’re actually shooting one another?


42 posted on 10/03/2013 8:19:51 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: mass55th

“the US government will still have to pay the French employees that work at the cemeteries.”

I see. The cemetery could be open, since we’re paying anyway, but it’s hard for Papa Obama to “ground” the American children and punish them for resisting his will if they are allowed to go out and break `curfew’.


43 posted on 10/03/2013 8:24:12 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: surrey
Sounds like a wonderful cruise. I wish now I had taken the two-day bus tour of Normandy instead the the one-day. Back then the two-day tour took you to the D-Day beaches and St. Laurent Cemetery on the first day, then the second day you visited Mont Saint-Michele and Bayeux, to view the Bayeux Tapestry (Battle of Hastings).

I have a great-uncle from Canada who died in WWI, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery which is in the northern outskirts of Boulogne. I would have liked to have gotten there on that trip but time wouldn't allow it.

44 posted on 10/03/2013 8:38:26 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: silverleaf

Please tell me you are kidding regarding Mt. Rushmore. Since everything is so far removed from reality these days, I’m having trouble knowing what is and isn’t true!


45 posted on 10/03/2013 8:51:24 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 ('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
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To: Texas Eagle

The GOP could storm Obama Beach.

‘Semper Fi’


46 posted on 10/03/2013 8:51:40 AM PDT by Moose47
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To: surrey

We took this cruise last September. It was glorious, and the day at the Normandy beaches was unforgettable. The American cemetery is something that will move you to the core of your soul.


47 posted on 10/03/2013 3:59:09 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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