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    Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with U.S. Army paratroopers of Easy Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Strike), 101st Airborne Division, at Greenham Common Airfield, England, before D-Day.



    U.S. Army troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day in Colleville Sur-Mer, France June 6 1944


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    Current zeitgeist and many events after and during the war tells us all you need to know about the allied “victory “ ...!


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    Back in late May of 2019 we took the Queen Mary to the UK. Aboard were about 20 men who had served in the Armed Forces at the time of the D-Day invasion. They were heading back to Normandy to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Invasion. Each day there was a presentation by several of them about their experiences. One had been captured by the Germans when he and his squad were caught on the wrong side of a bridge, before their fellow soldiers could rescue them. He spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. Others remember the landing and having fellow soldiers killed just a few feet away from where they were in the landing boats. They were all in the '90's and Cunard paid for their trip across for telling their stories. We got a chance to eat lunch with several of them during the voyage, since they were otherwise just passengers.

    There is an organization that sponsored them, which keeps the surviving soldiers and sailors of WWII together with regular reunions. I don't remember its name, but one of its leaders was there to moderate the panel and show photos of the soldiers and the landing.

    Back in 1990, we went to Normandy, taking a group of college students there while we were teaching them in London for a semester. One of my colleagues had served in the army and was stationed in Europe just after the war had ended (he was 18 in 1946). He had visited Normandy back then and guided us around, including to the great cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach. A very sobering view.

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    I´m old enough to remember when Presidents used to honor our D-Day Veterans and Fallen Heroes. I didn't see anything from the White House yesterday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mauidan View Post
    I´m old enough to remember when Presidents used to honor our D-Day Veterans and Fallen Heroes. I didn't see anything from the White House yesterday.
    At least we didn’t hear from this President that our fallen heroes were “suckers” and “losers.” Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ - The Atlantic

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    Quote Originally Posted by RDSChicago View Post
    At least we didn’t hear from this President that our fallen heroes were “suckers” and “losers.” Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ - The Atlantic
    Too bad his comments were not caught live rather than stating “multiple sources”. We all know how that went during the Russian probe. I didn’t vote for the guy but we need to come to our senses with the media propaganda on both sides.


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    Quote Originally Posted by RDSChicago View Post
    At least we didn’t hear from this President that our fallen heroes were “suckers” and “losers.” Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ - The Atlantic
    I think he said McCain was a loser and voting democrats were for suckers or something like that ...


    Obviously Totally out of line and unbecoming ...!

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    Trump said a lot of stupid things but Biden’s silence on Dday anniversary I’m sure trouble many voters, right or left.


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    Trump did ? i dont recall .....!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RDSChicago View Post
    At least we didn’t hear from this President that our fallen heroes were “suckers” and “losers.” Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ - The Atlantic
    “This article is republished here with permission from The Associated Press. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors”


    Snopes response to that ...!

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