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virus: "We have landed in the wrong place,"
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No matter the subject, the view, or the summarization of the many posts
in the last few days, I enjoy them.
Regardless of viewpoint, Teddy Roosevelt's grandson's view at Normandy
Beach sums it all up:
It was quite a sight. There was the oldest man in the D-day invasion,
56-year-old Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (son of the former
President) barking orders at Utah Beach. Although he had a heart
condition, Roosevelt insisted that his presence and leadership would
help boost troop morale. With German artillery exploding all around him,
he paraded up and down Utah Beach, ordering U.S. tanks to secure the
flanks and U.S. engineers to breach eight 5O-yd. lanes through beach
obstacles. He refused to wear a helmet, preferring to don a knit wool
hat. "We have landed in the wrong place," shouted Roosevelt, who would
receive the Medal of Honor for his valor that day. "But we will start
the war from here."
Excerpted from “What They Saw When They Landed”
Douglas Brinkley
Time Magazine
May 31, 2004
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Walter Watts
Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc.
"Pursue the small utopias... nature, music, friendship, love"
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