70 years ago
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Printed Date: January-22-2025 at 3:48am
Topic: 70 years ago
Posted By: Waterdog
Subject: 70 years ago
Date Posted: June-06-2014 at 11:46am
"Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love."
"Today, as 40 years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose -- to protect and defend democracy. The only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest. We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost."
"Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: "I will not fail thee nor forsake thee." Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died."
Ronald Reagan
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Posted By: baitkiller
Date Posted: June-06-2014 at 12:16pm
Boy do we need him back today.
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Jesus was a bare-footer.............
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Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: June-06-2014 at 12:40pm
There was a handful of veterans coming into the airport Wednesday night with a rather large, organized greeting and full parade out.
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Posted By: Waterdog
Date Posted: June-06-2014 at 12:55pm
H/W I've been at the airport greeting WWII vets that toured the DC Memorial.
It should be mandatory for every American - VERY MOVING -
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Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: June-06-2014 at 12:59pm
Yes, I teared up.
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