Ronald Reagan’s Speech, 40th Anniversary of D-Day

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Resharing this post from my friend Anna’s blog because I absolutely loved it. In my opinion, this 1,800+ word speech is one of President Reagan’s best speeches & not just one of his best, but one of the best of all the Presidents’ speeches concerning anniversary dates, military & civilian alike. GR8 Post From Anna, Thanks to her for it!!!

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It is said that this speech was one of Reagan’s best. It is a little long, but worth reading. It’s refreshing to see a President who knows what it took from the boys who stormed those beaches and the pride of being an American.

 

We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this…

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Haunting Pictures of the Great Wars Battlefields

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Another great post shared by my friend Anna….Some very inspiring pictures!!!

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Laid to rest: German cemetery on the battlefield of Tete des Faux - the highest point on the Western Front. 10 million soldiers died in the conflict almost 100 years ago

With not a soul in sight, the peace and tranquility of these rural landscapes comes through loud and clear in a gallery of beautiful images.Yet, nearly 100 years ago, these same serene scenes played host to some of the bloodiest and most violent battles of World War One in which 10 million soldiers died.British photographer Michael St Maur Sheil has spent the last few years taking hauntingly poignant pictures of some of the most notorious battlefields of the Great War as they are today.

 

Follow the link below to see more pictures of battlefields of the Great War.

via Remembrance Day 2011: Haunting pictures of the Great Wars battlefields | Mail Online.

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The Battle of Antietam 1862 Animated Map

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Absolute GREAT FIND by my friend Anna…..This is another example of how no one finds & displays a greater amount of STELLAR information, images, relevant articles, & historic stories than Anna & why I promote her blogs to everyone I know in cyberspace!!!

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Animated map of the Battle of Antietam

Amazing panoramic images of the Antietam Battlefield  

Click image to launch animated map.

 

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BRING BOWE HOME

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Resharing because of it’s GREAT IMPORTANCE!!!

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What is it going to take to bring our Soldier home?

   ➸ The US Army–”Leave no man behind.” ➸

Congress? Mr. President? I think you should be held to this standard.

If anyone has information or ideas concerning Bowe, or would like to offer support and find resources inquire  here.  PLEASE, tell your friends and family about Bowe, he’s been away from his family and in the captive hands of a terrorist group. He needs to come home. ✿

Please contact your congressmen and senators and remind them of Bowe, we cannot forget him. Their contact information can be foundhere.Thank you. 

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Please take a picture of a yellow ribbon/bow near something that represents where you are on the planet, or something symbolically meaningful to you and email it to bowsforbowe@comcast.net.

We will post it to this site. Please feel free to leave a short comment as…

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The Civil War’s link to Modern Day Christmas’

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Again, sharing for later re-reading…LOL…Love this kind of info & no one does it better than my friend Anna….Got to give her blogs a look-see & I guarantee you won’t regret it!!!

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As the year winds down, it’s interesting to see how much the vortex of the Civil War altered and shaped our Christmas traditions and customs.

 The South celebrated Christmas since colonial days, but Puritanical New England didn’t begin until the early 1800s as new immigrants from Europe began arriving.

The Christmas tree may have origins to the Roman Empire, but we acknowledge the Germans for its popularity. The first American Christmas trees were likely in Pennsylvania.

 In a mid- 19th century English magazine, there appeared a sketch of Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert. The image was of them with their family around a Christmas tree. This brought the acceptance of the tree into homes in England and also the United States.

 Eleanor Custis Lee, a great-great-grand daughter of Martha Washington, described in Nast put Santa on a sleigh handing out packages to Union soldiers in Civil War camp for the January 3, 1863 issue of Harper’s. It was the first of many Nast Santas.1853 how her family had a Christmas tree on a table at West Point…

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Santa Goes to War

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The modern-day image of Santa Claus, icon of peace and goodwill, was actually forged during America’s darkest days when it appeared in a Civil War illustration, and it wasn’t the last time that jolly St. Nick was enlisted to support wartime efforts on the home front.

Although “peace on earth” may never have seemed more elusive than during the Civil War, America’s bloodiest years actually produced our popular image of Santa Claus. Clement Clarke Moore had injected Santa into the American psyche with his 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (more popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas”), but it was four decades later when the modern-day figure of St. Nick first dripped off the pen of noted illustrator Thomas Nast.

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VA hospital refuses cards saying ‘Merry Christmas’

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Tantamount to Treason, as far as I’m concerned!!!

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Boys and girls at Grace Academy in Prosper, Tex., spent most of last Friday making homemade Christmas cards for bedridden veterans at the VA hospital in Dallas.

Fourth-grader Gracie Brown was especially proud of her card, hoping it would “make their day because their family might live far away, and they might not have somebody to celebrate Christmas with.”

“I’d like them to know they’ve not been forgotten and somebody wanted to say thank you,” Gracie told MyFoxDFW.com.  

Gracie’s card read, “Merry Christmas. Thank you for your service.” It also included an American flag.

But the bedridden veterans at the VA hospital will never get to see Gracie’s card. Nor will they see the cards made by 51 other students. That’s because the Christmas cards violated VA policy.

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DC Comic Ornaments

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comixology:

herochan:

Superhero Ornaments

Choose between Thing, Deadpool, Justice League, Wolverine, Hellboy, Captain America, Iron Man and many more at Ginger Pots.

Rad! Non-denominational holiday spheres!

For someone like me that has followed and been a fan of DC Comics, those Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Robin ornaments are so cool!!!