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'I've never missed my grandfather more': Obama leads tributes to D-Day heroes...
The London Daily Mail / The Associated Press ^
| June 5, 2014
| James Nye, AP Staff and Ted Thornhill
Posted on 06/06/2014 12:14:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Seventy years after Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, President Barack Obama returned to the hallowed battleground today to remember the soldiers who fought on its shores - and to give an emotional tribute to his own grandfather.
On Friday morning, the president spoke at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, where nearly 10,000 white marble tombstones sit on a bluff overlooking the site of the June 6, 1944, battle's most violent fighting at Omaha Beach.
'We are on this Earth for only a moment in time, and fewer of us have parents and grandparents to tell us about what the veterans of D-Day did here 70 years ago,'(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dday; greatestgeneration; obama; worldwarii
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Good grief!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:15:27 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:16:25 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It always about him. I am so sick of him.
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:16:50 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It ALWAYS has to come back to him!
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:17:17 PM PDT
by
uncitizen
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Which one? the one he called a racist? or the muslim polygamist ?
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:18:43 PM PDT
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a pant load. It’s not about YOU 0bama.
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:20:21 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
and his grandmother was Rosie the Riveter...it’s all about Obama..all the time.
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:20:21 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama writes in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, “I’d arrived at an unspoken pact with my grandparents: I could live with them and they’d leave me alone so long as I kept my trouble out of sight.”
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:20:37 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: 2ndDivisionVet
EVERYTHING is ALWAYS all about him.
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:20:42 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Was this the grandfather who liberated a concentration camp, one that was actually liberated by the Russian army? Or was that done by some other relative of his?
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:22:11 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:22:45 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: Vermont Lt; uncitizen
My late father fought for years in the Pacific and I’ll bet most people here have a relative that was in World War II. Something like 12 million people at a time served in the armed forces then versus about 2 million now. What’s his point?
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:22:55 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: Bob
It was his “Uncle Mohammed.”
To: 2ndDivisionVet
ugh!!!!
I am so glad I don’t watch this ass when he is on TV or listen on the radio.
On second thought maybe I will be thinner from the vomit!
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:25:10 PM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(can we trade Obama for a handful of beans)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:27:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; uncitizen
I gotta give Obama credit on this one. He only referred to himself 18 times during this speech. Compared to his West Point Commencement speech (144 first-person references), this was the most selfless speech of his entire political career.
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:27:59 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
upstaged by his grandfather ???
that must have hurt...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘I’ve never missed my grandfather more’-——We can arrange a reunion right after we hang your @$$ for treason.
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posted on
06/06/2014 12:36:21 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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