7 Response to "D-Day"

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   west_rhino 6/6/07 12:55

   President Reagan put it so well, the only thing I could ass is to quote our friends at Protestwarrior.org, "Except for ending slavery, Nazism, Communism and oppression, war hasn't solved anything."

   
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   paul adams 6/6/07 13:55

   This is the greatest day and the saddest day. It is a day of liberation and freedom. It is a day of comedy.
   
   1) Strom Thurmond fought in the D-day invasion.
   2) The South Carolina General Assembly finally gave the deserving props to Sen. John Drummond for being the WW2 hero he was and still is. (They should have named the national cemetery for him instead of for Dan Cooper's Dad)
   3) Today is my 35th birthday and in the immortal words of Jimmy Buffet there is still so much that is left to be done.
   4) Bobby Kennedy died 39 years ago today and so did the era of true hope in America.
   5) Today is Dana Carvey's birthday.
   
   May God Bless you all and if you see me stumbling in the streets don't run me over with your car.

   
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   Anonymous 6/6/07 14:20

   That was a great tribute.
   
   I really enjoyed getting to know you over the weekend. You're as smart as you are attractive. Hopefully we can meet up again sometime soon.

   
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   Earl Capps 7/6/07 01:40

   A lot of stories circulate around Greenwood about how the Germans tried to break Drummond. As the senior American officer in the camp, they wanted to bend him, to break the will of his fellow POWs.
   
   If the legends are to be believed, he spent quite a bit of time in solitary for his defiance, including for spitting in the commandant's face and telling him to go to hell in front of the entire camp. But they say he never broke, and did his men and country proud.
   
   That kind of puts all this uber-partisan crap in a different light, you know?

   
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   moye 10/6/07 21:48

   I had one Uncle in the D-day invasion he died this year. You had to pry him into talking about it and the war in general. Of course John Drummond is a hero. My Uncle who died was a Democrat. Till the day he died he swore he would never vote any other way. His Daddy was a Democrat and he was one also. After all the years I figured it was his right to believe this way he fought for this country and could had died for it so if he wanted to vote Democrat so be it. It did lead to some good arguments over the years. I gave up. I reckon you can say we just canceled each others vote on election day. He was 85 years old. I reckon Earl you can say that kind of puts all this uber-partisan crap in a different light, you know?

   
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   Earl Capps 10/6/07 22:12

   exactly. there used to be a time when people understood there was a time for partisan politics, and a point at which things were more important than checking party labels.
   
   i don't think that world exists anymore.

   
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   west_rhino 11/6/07 09:47

   Earl, 11 Seeptember 2001 took us back, all too briefly, to that time. The charachter of those seeking other gains, as remoas hoping to feed off a sharks leavings, is telling.