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Posted on 07/21/2019 7:59:21 AM PDT by rktman
Shot through by German machine gun bullets and tattered by the wind, an American flag that flew on the first U.S. invading ship on D-Day came home on Thursday in a White House ceremony.
The flag handover was a main part of the visit to the White House by Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, who held Oval Office talks with President Donald Trump.
The flag has been owned by retired Dutch businessman and art collector Bert Kreuk, who paid $514,000 for it at auction three years ago with the intention of donating it to the United States.
“I cannot keep it myself. It needs to go to the right institution. I need to give it back,” Kreuk said in a telephone interview ahead of the ceremony, at which he spoke.
The flag is to be put on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
“It is my honor to welcome this great American flag back home where it belongs,” said Trump, who called it a “reminder of the supreme sacrifice of our warriors and the beautiful friendship between the Dutch and the American people.”
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It would be nice to see a national archive where flags that flew in battle are saved for all REAL patriotic citizens to see and respect.
There is so much good in the world. Bert Kreuk is just one example. It is sad that all the good is drowned out by the media reporting the bad 90% of the time. But there is enormous good in the world. It is always nice to be reminded of that.
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Yes. As long as God is in the world, good is in the world.
Sorry, too many “trigger” possibilities would be involved. Surprised no one is triggered yet by the 48 star flag since there was a lot of racist things that took place under the 48 stars. But it’s early. Someone call colon krapinyourknickers for his take on it.
“.. It is sad that all the good is drowned out by the media reporting the bad 90% of the time....”
And reveling in it.
That only goes to show you what side the media is really on. Hint: It ain’t our side...
The 48-star flag was on the U.S. Navy’s Landing Craft Control 60, which was one of three advance ships directing troops onto Utah Beach on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944.
The LCC 60 was the only one of the three to complete its mission in the chaos of D-Day.
The ship and its 14-member crew were commanded by U.S. Navy Lieutenant Howard Vander Beek, a one-time Iowa teacher who brought the flag home from the war and kept it in his basement until he died in 2014.
To Kreuk, 54, the flag represented the liberation effort that saved his family from Nazi rule during World War Two. He said he lost family members during a German bombing raid on Rotterdam in 1940.
https://www.amazon.com/Aboard-LCC-Landing-Craft-Control/dp/B005GXYAMU
https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/fact-sheet-48-star-flag-d-day-control-vessel-lcc-60
Well, if these anti-American ingrates had not had the troops fighting under such flags, they would be speaking German or Japanese now....maybe even Russian.
To hell with all these disgusting losers.
That is correct.
I’ve got the 48 Star Flag from Grandpa’s Funeral.
SEND cklopernikced over to Me and I’ll show his dumb a $$ the 48’er and SMACK the crap outta him.
DAMNED SCUMBAGPOSRATBASTARD !!!
“It is my honor to welcome this great American flag back home where it belongs,” said Trump, who called it a “reminder of the supreme sacrifice of our warriors and the beautiful friendship between the Dutch and the American people.”
You speak the truth.
The media is probably our greatest enemy. The liberal politicians and voters, schools, and Hollywood are all sowing the seeds of our destruction, but by the media becoming a arm of the Democratic Party, they really dominate politics. They control the discussion and whoever controls the information — controls the nation.
The good news is the old media is weakening, but look what is happening. They are being replaced by Google and Facebook and Twitter, which are all screaming liberal and have a monopoly on the written word outside the MSM. We are screwed.
I keep screaming that some conservative billionaires need to create conservative versions of Google and Facebook. Does Rush Limbaugh need to die with all his money? Why doesn’t he recruit other conservative billionaires to create a conservative search engine and social media platforms. Greed, that is why. Certainly he has the right to do with his hard earned money what he wants, but he is not exactly putting his money where his mouth is.
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