Bamps (06-09-2014), LucyTudeOn4Feet (06-07-2014), ZRabbits (06-07-2014)
Bamps (06-09-2014), LucyTudeOn4Feet (06-07-2014), ZRabbits (06-07-2014)
A friend sent me a note saying there have only been four times a sitting U.S. president did not visit the D Day monument. Our current president was in office for all of them. Any truth in this?
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USA today did a commemorative edition about D-Day, because it's the 70th anniversary. It's filled with the stories of surviving men that they visited to interview. It's very good. I saw it out on new stands two weeks ago, I don't know if it's still available, but if WWII or history are your thing, it's well written. They give a page or a spread to each soldiers's story, and it details a spectrum of war experiences at that time, not just the infantry going ashore. Like, navigator, medic, airman, radioman, boat duty, etc.
This article reminded me of something I read earlier today. It's a dispatch written by Ernie Pyle, an incomparably eloquent correspondent who wrote dispatches from the field in WWII. He wrote about and for the little guy.
The dispatch was written on June 17, 1944 and it's about the human litter left by the men who died on the beach. Here is a link, published on the Indiana University School of Journalism web site. It's the kind of writing that 'official' embedded correspondents don't, can't, write nowadays. It's important, necessary reading.
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Bamps (06-09-2014), LucyTudeOn4Feet (06-07-2014), ZRabbits (06-07-2014)
Found this on Snopes.
snopes.com: Barack Obama and the D-Day Monument
Turns out to be false. It's an interesting read.
KenZ71 (06-09-2014)
Pretty disgusting that there were so many young people's lives taken by the stupidity of war.
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