D-Day

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  1. birddog

    birddog New Member

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    D-Day June 6, 1944. Don't forget the ones who were there. :smile:
     
  2. APACHERAT

    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's obvious Barack Obama forgot today.
     
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    perotista Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Isn't it strange how over time days like this is forgotten. When I grew up June 6th and December 7th were well remembered and respects paid. Of course that was the 1950's. A slow hand salute to those brave men who stormed those beaches. For a few of us, you are not forgotten.
     
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    JUNE 6, 1944: THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

    On June 5, 1944, standing in his headquarters watching it rain, General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, pulled out a pencil and scribbled a short note he hoped he wouldn’t have to use.

    Our landings in Normandy have failed, he wrote, and he had ordered their withdrawal. The decision to attack there and then had been his, so “if any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.” He was so preoccupied with worry he wrote “July” on it instead of “June.” He folded the paper and put it in his jacket pocket. As things transpired, the landings did not fail and the whole war changed. The note stayed in his pocket.

    Sometimes I’m asked by my students (alongside the perennial question “Who’s the worst president?”) whether there’s a most important day of the twentieth century. I always answer June 6, 1944: the day the Allies successfully put an army ashore in Northern France whose sole purpose was the total destruction of Nazi Germany...

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    EISENHOWER ON D-DAY: ‘THE FREE MEN OF THE WORLD ARE MARCHING TOGETHER TO VICTORY’


    On June 6, 1944 Allied forces under the command of General Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy. It was almost four years to the day that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech in which he prophetically called for the “New World” to step forth and liberate the old.

    The hour of Europe’s liberation had come, and it would be delivered by the greatest amphibious invasion in world history.

    The Associated Press dramatically reported, “Thousands of American, Canadian and British soldiers, under cover of the greatest air and sea bombardment of history, have broken through the ‘impregnable’ perimeter of Germany’s ‘European fortress’ in the first phase of the invasion and liberation of the Continent.”

    Eisenhower was one of the first to be convinced that a concentrated attack in Western Europe was vital to ultimately defeating Nazi Germany. He wrote in 1942, “We’ve got to go to Europe and fight—and we’ve got to quit wasting resources all over the world—and still more—wasting time.”

    Renowned historian Craig L. Symonds wrote in Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, “Before the first landing craft nudged up onto the sand, before the first soldier stepped onto the beach to face that merciless machine gun fire, a great deal had to happen.” It was an organizational and logistical nightmare to orchestrate an invasion force of “over six thousand ships and more than a million men.”

    In what was arguably the most momentous single day of the 20th century...

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    D-DAY: RONALD REAGAN AT POINTE DU HOC

    On June 6, 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan stood on what he called a “lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France” to deliver an oration that would become known as his “Boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech. He made this speech in front of 62 survivors of the 2nd Ranger Battalion who courageously scaled the 100 ft. high cliffs on that fateful day.

    The 225 Rangers who fought at Pointe-du-Hoc demonstrated almost unimaginable bravery and took heavy losses in the battle. In their attempt to take the important strategic location–135 Rangers would lose their lives. To put this in perspective, only 110 of the 670 British cavalrymen were killed in the famously doomed “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Crimean War.

    Historian Douglas Brinkley wrote in his book The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion, “With Reagan as president, the time had come for the World War II generation to speak out. By 1984, the stars were aligned for thousands of these stoic war heroes to finally offer eyewitness testimonials for posterity’s sake. It was, in essence, a generational reckoning.”...

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  5. MrLiberty55

    MrLiberty55 New Member

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    Thank you to all the veterans who have served, past and present. :flagus:
     

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