D-Day
On D-Day anniversary Mike Pompeo compares the Chinese Communist Party to Nazi Germany
On June 6 we commemorated the 76th anniversary of D-Day. It was the day Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, in what was to become the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking with the Daily Caller, said the lessons learned from that infamous ...
President Trump receives a piece of American history from the Netherlands
President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 18, welcomed the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte to the White House, where the president accepted an incredible gift. “Today, on behalf of the American people, I will receive an American flag that flew aboard a ship carrying the first waves of United ...
President Trump Honors Extraordinary D-Day Hero
The title of 98-year-old D-Day survivor Ray Lambert’s recently written memoir is "Every Man a Hero.” When President Donald Trump unexpectedly singled out the heroic Army medic from North Carolina in his speech at the 75th anniversary commemoration of D-Day, Lambert considered it to be a reference all of the ...
CNN’s Jim Acosta and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Praise President Trump’s D-Day speech
President Donald Trump on Thursday, June 6, said that the elderly veterans are among the very greatest Americans who will ever live!. President Trump tweeted: "Today, we remember those who fell, and we honor all who fought, here in Normandy. They won back this ground for civilization. To more than 170 ...
President Trump hits back, calls Pelosi a nervous wreck over prison comment
President Donald Trump slammed back at Nancy Pelosi in a public comment on Thursday, June 6, while the president was abroad, the House speaker reportedly said she wanted to see the president "in prison" instead of being impeached. According to a report by Politico, Pelosi made her comments in an evening ...
Trump embraces last known survivor of Company A
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, June 6, paid tribute to the man he described as the last known survivor of Company A that stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, calling him a "tough guy." President Donald Trump said, "Private First Class Russell Pickett, of the 29th Division's famed 116th Infantry Regiment, had ...
Update: On Omaha Beach, a must-have souvenir is sand
The Latest on the 75th anniversary of D-Day (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Andrew Parker, a 33-year-old sax player from Orange County, California, filled up a plastic bottle with Omaha Beach sand, just as his grandfather did when he landed as an army scout shortly after D-Day in June 1944. Britain's Prince Harry ...
US veteran parachutes in D-Day ceremony
Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day—but this time without being shot at. C-47 transporters dropped stick after stick of parachutists, a couple of hundred in all—including a D-Day veteran, Tom Rice. The parachutists were honoring the airborne soldiers who jumped into gunfire ...
US WWII vets revisit battleground at Omaha Beach on 75th anniversary of D-Day
Fifteen American World War II veterans traveled to France to revisit Omaha Beach several days before the 75th Anniversary of the Allied invasion also known as D-Day. They were able to return for this venerable, yet painful anniversary with the help of the Best Defense Foundation, which honors veterans and helps ...
D-Day still takes an emotional toll on vets, 75 years on
Leonard "Ted" Emmings has had a mission for 75 years.The night before the D-Day landings, Emmings and his shipmates on a Royal Navy landing craft learned their mission was to ferry 36 Canadian troops to Juno Beach, a stretch of Normandy coast fortified with artillery, mortars, mines and machine gun ...
Normandy tries to keep alive ‘infinite gratitude’ for D-Day
At 10 years old, Henri-Jean Renaud watched U.S. paratroopers landing through the window of his Normandy home in the early hours of D-Day. Like other French who lived through the war, he's trying to pass on to younger generations the gratitude he feels. With fewer veterans and witnesses able to share ...

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