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Our Commander in Chief is AWOL, again! It is now, June 6, 2013, 16:13 CDT, well after the close of the business day in Washington, D.C. Across the ocean, it is 23:12, in Normandy, France. All the commemorations of this hallowed day, in 1944, have come and ceased, closing out the 69th anniversary of the Allied D-Day invasion of Fortress Europe, to make free, again, those who have become oppressed and made slaves to the Occupied Europe of the German Nazi Third Reich. Our sitting President, without fail, has now, for a third time, since his re-election, failed to appear,...

Josef Stalin had nothing to do with the June 6, 1944, Normandy invasion, yet a bust of the Soviet dictator is being given a place at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. This is an unearned and indecent honor for a man who is remembered as one of history's greatest mass murderers. The memorial to this communist should be removed. The mission of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is to "commemorate the valor, fidelity and sacrifice of Allied participants in the invasion of Normandy." Soviet troops played no role in the D-Day invasion, thus it is inappropriate for the...

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<p>NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Bill Mauldin, who dished out snippets of World War II reality laced with humor through cartoon soldiers Willie and Joe and became one of the 20th century's pre-eminent editorial cartoonists, died Wednesday. He was 81.</p> <p>Mauldin died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, at a Newport Beach nursing home, said Andy Mauldin, 54, of Santa Fe, N.M., one of the cartoonist's seven sons.</p>