Obama solemnly proclaimed: “Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget — what we must not forget — is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century,”

Meanwhile, he tells the British to take back their gift and shove it.

To our greatest generation and our friends and allies, pay no attention to the chattering class. Thank you for your service!

at my sister’s assisted living residence. He was a WWII vet. From D-day across France into Germany where hewas POW. He hurt his shoulder when tossed out of a window from a bomb nearby. He was, he said , on POW work detail in a city. The bombs went off and the guards fled. He hand his buddies thought itwas timeto leave too.They made it to the front lines, somehow as it snaked along, And didn’t get shot
But the interesting thing was that he said was on the D-day landing, ( he was very plain-spoken…) He was towards the back of the Landing craft and he could see the men in front of him as they exited the craft, sinking from the weight of the back pack andequipment.
So he shucked it off and swam like heck to shore. But he had no equipment.
But he said he was able to pick up some and a rifle and pistol on the shore from fallen GIs.
An interesting guy-from D-day to germany with only a stiff shoulder injury.
He was very thin,from POW neglect. He was thin normally but Pow meals were sawdust in the bread etc. He had to put on 30# before h could get out of the army, he said. Hats off and kudos to Roland this June 6, D.Day!Great job.

…it’s available on DVD, one of the more underrated commemorative movies, if you ask me. Serious men, involved in a serious undertaking.

Not recommended for Patton, Montgomery, or DeGaulle fans.

of how American soldiers have change the course of human history.
Some people think that America shouldn’t impose it’s values on other nations or people.
I do not consider it to be an imposition.Many many people all over the world have benefitted greatly from such imposition.
They were saved from a life of misery and despair.
It will be a sad and dark day if America steps back from it’s role as a world leader and allows those who would enslave others to rise again.
Not all lives are equal.
Not all countries are equal.
Not all Presidents are equal.
Democracy and freedom are always superior to tyranny and oppression.
Thank God that we had and still now have those willing to pay the price for our liberty and the liberty of others who cannot defend themselves.

I had the pleasure of serving with M/Sgt James McDermott at the Ranger Mountain Camp at Dahlonaga, Georgia in the late 1950′s.

On June 6, 1944, he was a eighteen year old (almost nineteen) automatic rifleman with the Rangers.

He was a big red-headed Irish-American and, when he first saw me, he claimed that he thought he was looking in a mirror. I was a bit older than eighteen but I too was a big red-headed Irish-American and carried an automatic rifle by preference.

He told a story about D-Day and climbing the cliffs at Ponte Du Hoc. He said that, with the Germans firing down at them and throwing grenades, the fact that some of the climbing ropes were working loose or being cut by the Germans did not seem important. He said that he was sure that he would not live to get to the top of the cliff much less reach nineteen.

To him, his fellow Rangers, the other American, British and Canadian forces that went ashore on that day, I lift my glass.