Thread: 75 Years After D-Day, Normandy Invasion, WWII,

- This afternoon, brief but pleasant encounter with Guy Whidden / 502nd PIR / 101st Airborne Division and actor James Madio who portrayed Frank Perconte in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers".
- this afternoon, meeting, short but pleasant, with guy whidden / 502nd PIR / 101st airborne division and actor James Madio who performed the role of Frank Perconte in the mini-Series "brothers of weapon".

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The Greatest Generation



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WWII Veteran Ernie Micka made an appearance on Great Day Live this morning to celebrate his 101st birthday! While he was there, the Ladies for Liberty stopped by to sing him a few songs, too. Thank you for your service, Ernie!

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Trump attends commemoration of 75th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth, UK | ABC News

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Blood on the Risers

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Alone

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

― Winston S. Churchill

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have

striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The
hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war
machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of
Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well
equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of
1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats,
in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their
strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home
Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions
of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to
Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?"
"I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left up there. But we're alive. We're all lucky to be alive. We'd have been dead if we'd stayed up above."
"Oh, what a mercy we didn't!" she exclaimed. "How lucky we are!"
Incredible though it sounds, within a few moments, a whole lot of people were congratulating each other on their extraordinary good fortune in only having lost all their worldy posessions.”
― Ida Cook, Safe Passage

“It is not the American soldiers duty do die for his country. It is the American soldiers duty to make the enemy die for his country.”
― Gen. George S. Patton

“[O]ur segment of the picture consists only of tired and dirty soldiers who are alive and don't want to die; of long darkened convoys in the middle of the night; of shocked silent men wandering back down the hill from battle; of chow lines and atabrine tablets and foxholes and burning tanks and Arabs holding up eggs and the rustle of high-flown shells; of jeeps and petrol dumps and smelly bedding rolls and C rations and cactus patches and blown bridges and dead mules and hospital tenets and shirt collars greasy-black from months of wearing; and of laughter too, and anger and wine and lovely flowers and constant cussing. All these it is composed of; and of graves and graves and graves.”
― Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War

“These monsters have industrialized murder. Sometimes as many as ten thousand people are murdered in Auschwitz in a single day, people from all across Europe, adding up to millions upon millions of Jews and homosexuals and communists and political dissenters and Slavs and gypsies and artists. Six million Jews exterminated. Two out of every three in all of Europe. The Nazis want to exterminate everyone who is not like them. In their eyes not to be like them is an unforgivable crime. It is a narcissism gone insane. The narcissism of the psychopath.”
― Lee Vidor, The Auschwitz Chapter