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Remembering the heroes of D-Day… FDR’s Prayer….,
At 9:57 pm on D-Day, June 6, 1944, FDR sat in front of a microphone in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House waiting to begin a national radio address. Earlier in the day the President had held a press conference in the Oval Office for over 180 reporters. While providing few details on the invasion, […]
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Holocaust survivors…
Incredible… These 3 Jewish men arrived in Auschwitz on the same day, & were tattooed 10 numbers apart. 73 years later, @sandibachom photographed them meeting for the first time for the Last Eyewitness Project, as free men who survived to build families and prosperous lives. Credit: Reddit/ennoeedit
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Classic WW2 Exchange…
The enemy win their battles from the air! They knock out my panzers with American armor-piercing shells. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel That’s impossible! The Americans only know how to make razor blades. Göring We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshall. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel Allegedly attributed to Rommel regarding the Second […]
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Charles McGee, Brigadier General and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airman, passed at the age of 102.
Hey Russ—-how are you sir? Russ—I saw that Alvernia is looking for a Director of Infrastructure and Til Valhalla, Sir: Brig. Gen. Charles McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died Sunday morning in his sleep, according to a family spokesman. He was 102. “McGee was a living legend known for his kind-hearted, and […]
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Betty White; A beautiful person inside and out.
When World War II broke out, she put her career on hold and volunteered for the American Women’s Voluntary Services. Her mission was to help the transportation of military supplies through California. She also participated in events for troops before they were deployed overseas. RIP, Betty. You Gem.
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“The Hiding Place”
After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, a Dutch watchmaker named Corrie ten Boom and her family decided to build a secret room in their home. For four years, they would use this room to hide Jews — and save them from the Holocaust. “The ten Boom family sheltered as many Jewish refugees as […]
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Acts, not Words….
Louisiana’s Lawrence Brooks, aged 112, smiled as his daughter, Vanessa, tenderly placed his new garrison cap on his head in the ICU bed. She says it’s what her father, the world’s oldest living World War II veteran, wanted most — a new Army uniform to replace the original he’d lost 16 years ago in Hurricane […]
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Look at those faces….
90% of these soldiers on the first boats to hit the beaches didn’t live to see the end of the day…look at those faces…some of them never lived to see their 18th Birthday…never voted…never loved a woman…or owned a home…they paid the ultimate price for your freedom…you live your life the way you do because […]
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