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Let 's be glad that this D-Day
is not as risky as the one in 1941.

David

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[+4] - fresco - 06/06/2013Or even 1944 for that matter ! :)
[+4] - contrex - 06/06/2013Wenn es nicht fÃ¼r Amerika, wÃ¼rde ich jetzt Deutsch sprechen.
[+4] - panzade - 06/05/2014For god's sakes David! Tomorrow is the anniversary of D Day. Can we leave the 2nd Amendment out of the discussion? I don't know how spendius triggered your hot button but every chance you...
[+4] - panzade - 06/05/2014[quote]Go stuff your head in the garbage. [/quote] Ouch! That hoits! So you think I can't ask for a short recess on your obsession because it's your thread?...
[+4] - farmerman - 06/05/2014we called them "allies" before we called them enemies. Youre an old man, so you should remember first hand all that stuff called history. When did you become so embittered and obsessed...
[+3] - spendius - 06/15/2013I think that being a bigot is perfectly natural just as being promiscuous is. Education is about toning these things down.
[+3] - Walter Hinteler - 06/15/2013[quote="OmSigDAVID"]People can change their minds. [/quote]Indeed. And they did so and do so. But not the SA. [quote="OmSigDAVID"]U [b]dispute[/b] that the S.A. were...

@OmSigDAVID,

Or even 1944 for that matter ! Smile

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@fresco,

Maybe he's a big fan of the Giants. In 1941 they used plastic batting helmets for the first time.

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@fresco,

Thank u for catching my error, Fresco!

I O U a favor.

David

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@izzythepush,

B4 then, thay used wood, or gold ?

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Wenn es nicht für Amerika, würde ich jetzt Deutsch sprechen.

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@OmSigDAVID,

I don't know, I'm not a fan, and I'm even not familiar with the rules.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

Wenn es nicht für Amerika, würde ich jetzt Deutsch sprechen.

Worse than that, I'd prob'ly be dead.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I don't know, I'm not a fan, and I'm even not familiar with the rules.

Me too; I don't expect to learn them.

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@contrex,

I think you should also express some thanks to the Russians who kept 3/5 of Adolf's soldiers busy by sacrificing themselves in a fierce series of battles for their homeland.

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@OmSigDAVID,

re you planning a line of D Day greeting cards?

in another 50 years, Ill bet there will be DDay sales at WalmArts and excuses for parties (AMERICANS ARE INDEFATIGABLE PARTYERS)

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

re you planning a line of D Day greeting cards?

in another 50 years, Ill bet there will be DDay sales at WalmArts and excuses for parties (AMERICANS ARE INDEFATIGABLE PARTYERS)

In fact, I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- that no merchandising genius has yet come up with a full-blown sales program to take advantage of the maudlin sentimentality of the American consumer on this great day.

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@farmerman,

And let's not forget,please, that D-Day was not an American operation, except insofar that much of the equiment, particularly the landing gear, was US-made and the commanding general was a West Point graduate.

It seems to me that when we commemorate the 6th of June we tend to forget the Brits, the Aussies, the New Zealanders and others who came ashore at those beaches of Normandy, many of them making it their last stop on this earth.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

I think you should also express some thanks to the Russians who kept 3/5 of Adolf's soldiers busy
by sacrificing themselves in a fierce series of battles for their homeland.

Yea, that sure was nice of Stalin, right?
(Until June 21, the commies were loud in demanding American neutrality.)
What do u believe that the Polish victims thawt of the Hitler-Stalin Pact ??
U gonna thank the Russians for that, too ?

Just HOW was it that the commies got into that un-pleasantness
with the national socialists ??

R u gonna celebrate June 22?? I must remember to DO that.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Nobody's saying Stalin was a stand up guy, but the Soviet people paid a huge blood price for defeating Hitler, and without them we would probably have lost.

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As with just about everything else in history, David has a cartoon view of the second world war, heavily informed by an irrational conservative polemic.

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D-day was close to one year before the end of WWII.
In those 11 months thousands died, soldiers, civilians, allies and enemies.
Let us in our hearts thank those who fought for our freedom, pity those who had to die for a dictator´s madness and be thankful that we now live in peace.

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@saab,

cannot argue with that.

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@farmerman,

My Uncle Joe was on the first ambulance boat back to England. He limped all his life. Another Uncle, Jack, was a Desert Rat. Only his innocence got disabled.

Uncle Joe gave me a half-a-crown every Sunday morning after Mass.

Maybe my Christian outlook is Pavlovian. If it is then it's probable that anti-Christian outlooks are Pavlovian as well.

What about Syria?

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@spendius,

actually , properly said , its "WHAT ABOUT NAOMI?"

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HAPPY D-DAY, EVERYONE !

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