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40th Anniversary of D-Day (reagan speech from 1984)
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Posted on 06/06/2003 9:07:25 AM PDT by anncoulteriscool
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To: BeechF33A
Enough already. D-Day's over.Come again?
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posted on
06/06/2003 8:48:31 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(They loved America with the sureness of the young.)
To: anncoulteriscool
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posted on
06/06/2003 8:51:51 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(They loved America with the sureness of the young.)
To: Mr. Silverback
Will do, Silverback. Uncle Bill grew up and lived in NOLA, and was an active worker in the background when the D-Day Museum was being planned and built.
I've been to the Museum many times with him, and it is so heartwarming to see a couple and their kids realize that the elderly one-armed man standing next to them was there. They usually ask about his experiences, and it brings tears to my eyes when they thank him, and usually hug him before moving off to the next exhibit.
To: andysandmikesmom
Thank you. That was moving. My grandfather and one of his brothers both spent time in mental hospitals after some terrible duty in the Pacific. My grandad fought in at least one hand-to-hand night action with the Japanese. It's a wonder they weren't all crazy when they came home.
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posted on
06/06/2003 8:55:04 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(They loved America with the sureness of the young.)
To: Ready4Freddy
Next time to talk to him, tell him Thanks and my best wishes for him, also...
He should be proud...
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posted on
06/06/2003 8:55:28 PM PDT
by
TomServo
(Free Illbay!!)
To: TomServo
to=you....fat fingers.
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posted on
06/06/2003 8:55:45 PM PDT
by
TomServo
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To: TomServo; Mr. Silverback
Thanks to both of you, I'll certainly pass your comments along to him.
To: BeechF33A
Enough already. D-Day's over.Hey Hillaywannabe, your on the wrong board!
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:02:13 PM PDT
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: anncoulteriscool
Bump and bookmark
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:27:27 PM PDT
by
Valin
(Age and deceit beat youth and skill)
To: Valin
Bttt!
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:54:19 PM PDT
by
cgk
(Rummy on WMD: We haven't found Saddam Hussein yet, but I don't see anyone saying HE didn't exist.)
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To: Ready4Freddy
Will do, Silverback. Uncle Bill grew up and lived in NOLA, and was an active worker in the background when the D-Day Museum was being planned and built. Isn't that an odd coincidence! I was just finishing To America on Friday morning, including the chapter about the establishment of the D-Day Museum. Awesome!
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posted on
06/07/2003 12:52:09 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(They loved America with the sureness of the young.)
To: Mr. Silverback
A dimunitive terrestrial sphere, it is. :>)
If you haven't been, you need to go, Silverback. They opened the Pacific Theater Exhibit on Dec 7, 2001, if you need an excuse to go back. Well worth the trip to NOLA.
To: SAMWolf
Does anyone know where one could buy a video of those speeches?
To: rcofdayton
Not off hand, but the Reagan Library may have copies for sale.
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posted on
06/07/2003 2:49:49 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Individualists unite!)
To: Ready4Freddy
A dimunitive terrestrial sphere, it is. :>)No kidding, and it gets even more bizarre: I was going through some old magazines tonight, and one of the first ones I opened was a Novemeber issue of Focus on the Family that had an account of D-Day by a doctor who credits God with getting him through the day alive.
If you haven't been, you need to go, Silverback.
I definitely will! After reading Ambrose's book, I am raring to get down there, and my wife and I are thinking of taking the kids and following the Lewis and Clark trail in a few years.
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posted on
06/07/2003 8:48:41 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Sorry, I forgot to put a tagline here.)
To: Mr. Silverback
I hope y'all do make it, Silverback. I'd recommend the Embassy Suites on Julia Street. Decent prices ($139 / night), could sleep 6 in the suite, and a great buffet and / or cooked-to-order breakfast included with room.
It's ~4 blocks from the Museum on Magazine Street, a few blocks from the Quarter and Aquarium, and the Museum is 2 blocks from St Charles, where you can catch the trolley to get to the Garden District, etc.
To: andysandmikesmom
I stood there. At Pointe de Hoc. And on the bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. I walked that beach. Just being there, seeing it, was overwhelming. I couldn't have done what these boys did. I was so overcome with a feeling of -what, - helplessness, cowardice, terror - that I couldn't believe it. To see those gun emplacements - they were huge!! Oh, God have mercy on those that fought that day - and bless them all. What they did is unbelievable - the bravery, the sheer audacity of storming those cliffs and beaches was courage that we will never know. Thank God for our fathers.
To: anncoulteriscool
Leave it to Ronald Reagan to bring me to tears. God bless him, I wish he was still POTUS.
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posted on
06/07/2003 9:31:01 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: Mr. Silverback; Ready4Freddy
I hope you get to the D-Day museum. It was fantastic. There is so much to see and hear.
My daughter was in college in New Orleans when they opened the Pacific wing in 2001, shortly after 9/11. They flew some kind of jets overhead that day, and she called me - frantic - thinking we were under attack, again. I assured her that we were OK, they were having a celebratiion and parade at the D-Day museum, and why didn't she get up and get down there!!! Kids !!
PS. Check out Hotel.com We got a great rate for her graduation.
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