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We went by the Statue of Liberty, and all that was in our minds was we might never see it again, but we made it back — a lot of us, sniper rifleman Leslie Simmler of West Chester, Pennsylvania, landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy with Infantry Division ….

Private First Class Ernest Marvel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Do you want us to try and fight like we're at the beaches of Normandy ? Or do you want me to tell what a lot of people do and say -- oh, go home and ride it out and go to the ER when your lips turn blue.

Robert Karas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

War and conflict, death and loss are not relics of our American history; they're a part of Americans' story. Here in Arlington lie heroes who gave what President Lincoln called ‘the last full measure of devotion,’ they did not only die at Gettysburg or in Flanders Field or on the beaches of Normandy, but in the mountains of Afghanistan, the deserts of Iraq in the last 20 years.

Jill Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

David Pottier said of United States. Thepandemic has wreaked havoc across the world, infecting 6.6 million people, killing over 391,000 and devastating economies.It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. It has also affected the younger generations who turn out every year to mark the occasion. Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of American Normandy. In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2020, two people stop to look at an information board at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) Some 160,000 soldiers made the perilous crossing from England that day in atrocious conditions, storming dunes which they knew were heavily defended by German troops determined to hold their positions. Somehow, they succeeded. Yet they left a trail of thousands of casualties who have been mourned for generations since. Last year stood out, with U.S. President Donald Trump joining his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. A smattering of veterans were honored with the highest accolades. All across the beaches of American Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. The tiny roads between the dunes, hedges and apple orchards were clogged for hours, if not days. FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Heading into the D-Day remembrance weekend this year, only the salty brine coming off the ocean on Omaha Beach hits the nostrils, the shrieks of seagulls pierce the ears and a sense of desolation hangs across the regions country roads. Last year this place was full with jeeps, trucks, people dressed up as soldiers.

Eric Angely

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Now The Kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand, as somebody wrote in a very very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As somebody wrote in a very very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Kurds are fighting for their land...As somebody wrote in a very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy as an example... But they were there to help us with their land, and that's a different thing, with all of that being said we like the Kurds.

President Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They didn't help us in the second World War II, they didn't help us with Normandy for example, they're there to help us with their land, and that's a different thing.

President Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were right there in Normandy with the tombstones behind us and the rest, so I just wasn't going to engage in that.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Cadman Kiker said. In all, 2,501 Americans were among the 4,414 Allied troops killed on those beaches. Distance always fades memory, and it is a reason why the French remember the fallen soldiers more easily. From childhood, they visit the cemeteries, memorials and museums that dot the Normandy countryside. U.S. veterans are invariably impressed by what French youngsters still know about their feats, their undying gratitude, while many are wistful that those stories resonate less and less among American youths where they live. Its so frightening, if Cadman Kiker forget history, it is doomed to repeat itself.

Mike Connor

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Because the Germans didnt know where the real invasion was coming there werent a lot of soldiers actually at the beach, but they had a lot of troops inland, fortitude and its smaller operations helped convince the Germans not to move to Normandy immediately.

John Coyne

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Is there a place for enhanced fencing? Normandy fencing would work. Let them have that discussion.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I believe that we will achieve progress in the Normandy negotiations between Russia and the Ukraine within the next months. I am optimistic.

Germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With Steven's knowledge of how to tell a story and Steven Spielberg cinematic understanding of how to tell that story, the language that Steven Spielberg speaks, the tools at Steven Spielberg disposal to capture something like the Invasion of Normandy, it was all brand new, so it was all going to be able to happen in a very fresh, very immediate kind of way, it opened up a floodgate of reminisces and understanding and I think a very, very personal connection to it. I can't tell you how many times I have come across somebody who has told me that their Dad or Grandfather never said a word about what they did from 1941-1945 until they saw' Saving Private Ryan.'.

Rob Shuter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We hope our Western partners won't stay away, and European countries, primarily France and Germany who are taking part in so called Normandy format, and mainly the U.S. won't do anything to create an illusion for Kiev's government that its actions lead to automatic support in the West.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are going to start the war from right here. (Utah Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944)

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

added by paul8539
14 years ago

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