…but What about those Canadians at Juno, I think they did a good job too, albeit with less experience.

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The real answer is this administration does not fundamentally understand the military, does not want to and does not really respect them.

Would you expect them to at a granular level when you know who they are?

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When you walk into an Officer’s Club and you have three rows of ribbons because you served in combat, they make a hole for you. They notice if you are a Ranger or a paratrooper or sporting a combat patch.

The Army does not mislead itself, this is a civilian problem.

The military is very judgmental and does not mislead itself.

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I still don’t get it. If he had said “service”, that’s like getting a B instead of an A. By lying/stretching, he prob got an F.

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Just as our nation was born at the point of a bloody bayonet, D Day was won by a bloody bayonet.

Can you imagine coming out of the surf to take a beach defended by Germans in concrete fortifications?

That is the kind of men we call Americans. We are an exceptional nation. We are the greatest force for good ever produced by a free people.

We should never be ashamed of it. That is who we are.

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We landed 156,000 troops on D Day. We lost 2500 on the beaches, 2000 of them at Omaha. We lost a total of 12,000 troops in the first days of fighting. The Nazi’s lost 7-8k. That’s the human price we paid. (Those numbers don’t include wounded or POW)

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D Day was won, in great part, by company grade officers who drove their units eastward and killed Germans and in turn were killed in hugely disproportionate numbers.

Where do we get such men? How are they inspired?

They come from the heart of our great nation. They go to places like West Point, VMI, the Citadel, Annapolis, Air Force, Texas A & M, Norwich and when America calls, they drop their plows and pick up their rifles and buy our liberty with their blood time and time again.

We are not worthy of such sacrifice and yet they keep coming. War is an obscenity because of the sacrifices demanded. It is why we should be strong and never tempt any evil doer to screw with us.

We are living in very dangerous times. It is a time to be strong not weak.

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There is dignity and nobility in every element of service in an army. Not everyone gets to be a Ranger or a paratrooper or in combat arms (Infantry, Artillery, Armor, Engineers) and someone has to be the shaft of the spear point.

Good chow and adequate supply is more important than anything sometimes. An army travels on its belly.

The French have much to be embarrassed about for World War II. The French collaborate with the Germans in turning their own Jewish countrymen in to the Germans to be exterminated. More French Jews than any other nation including Germany.

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I hate to be cynical-and do not discount anyone who served in the military-but there are certain people that try to make big events about them-they use them to connect politically to a group. Remember, Obama is having some huge trouble right now with the VA, and with the prisoner exchange. I think that is your answer.

Agree. I knew Walt Ehlers. He made three amphibious landings (N. Africa; Sicily, First wave at Omaha). Also have met Herschel Woody Wilson. He went ashore at Iwo. I am glad I never had to and wonder if I would have been able to. Very courageous those guys. At Omaha, the officer corps was basically killed off since they were in the front of the landing craft.