Posted on 06/06/2019 2:24:05 AM PDT by knighthawk
President Trump planned to join other world leaders in Europe on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, a monumental event that was largely responsible for shaping the outcome of World War II.
The ceremony was to take place on the edge of Omaha Beach in Normandy where thousands of American and Allied soldiers lost their lives.
Trump, continuing the tradition of his predecessors, will stand alongside leaders from Britain, Canada, France, and even Germany to pay homage to the troops who stormed the fortified Normandy to help turn the tide of the war.
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CNN made sure they stayed in commercial during the National Anthem, and then had commentary during the entire invocation with split screen of all the staff jackasses.
Nice touch.
D-Day plus 75 years.
Did I see John F. Kerry with some woman sitting way in the back??
Must be real uncomfortable for the Krauts. Come to think about it,they’re still up to no good.
Trump is giving an awesome speech.
Did I see John F. Kerry with some woman sitting way in the back??
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he has no right to be on this hallowed ground
I could SWEAR I saw him or his twin!
Trump is giving an awesome speech.
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proud to be an American!
awesome ceremony.
awesome entire european trip.
“Trump is giving an awesome speech.”
It was great. I was glad he worked the word, “exceptional”, in to it. The last part was excellent.
No right at all. Here’s the clown who trashed the US military and publicly threw his medals away
HE should be shunned by everyone in the US and anyone in uniform
On Gold beach this morning Lone Piper, Pipe Major Trevor Macey-Lillie of the 19th regiment, Royal Artillery.....
yesterday:... 'Veterans' leap from planes over Normandy as they recreate the D-Day landings
75 years after they were carried out
- "General George Patton's Famous D-Day Speech." -
“You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you here today will die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Every man is frightened at first in battle. If he says he isn’t, he’s a goddamn liar. Some men are cowards, yes! But they fight just the same, or get the hell shamed out of them watching men who do fight whoa are just as scared. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire, some take an hour. For some it takes days. But the real man never lets the fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to this country and his innate manhood.” He also said, “There is one great thing you men will all be able to say when you go home. You may thank God for it. Thank God, that at least, thirty years from now, when you are sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knees, and he asks you what you did in the Great War, you won’t have to cough and say, and ‘I shoveled shit in Louisiana.’ No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, ‘Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named George Patton!”
Great map.
It’s fashionable in pacifist circles to claim the invasion was an iffy thing. They harp on the difficulty at Omaha Beach and extrapolate that to the whole invasion effort.
Your map clearly shows there were four other invaded beaches and a host of territoty taken by American and British airborne divisions that belie the revisionist whine
The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II. Two decades after D-Day, former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was Supreme Commander in charge of the operation, returned to Normandy. Eisenhower talked with CBS News' Walter Cronkite about his experiences in June 1944, the tactical decisions behind Operation Overlord, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talked out of joining the invading forces. Eisenhower and Cronkite visited the Allies' war room on England's southern coast; the coast of France, including Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach; and the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-on-the-Sea. This special broadcast of "CBS Reports," featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964.
Yeah heard it, going to watch it this evening. Yesterday’s remembrance was a great watch to.
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