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-hh - 06 Jun 2007 14:47 GMT

63rd Anniversary.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,138202,00.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2004/france/Normandy_cem1.jpg

http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2004/france/airborne_glass.jpg

-hh

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Doh - 07 Jun 2007 01:22 GMT

> 63rd Anniversary.
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> -hh

Might never of been necessary if the Americans hadn't had their hands
over their eyes until 1941.

Of course, the other date to remember is 31/12/2006 (or should it be
12/31/06) when we finally paid off what we had to borrow to fight the war.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1265277.ece

Personally, I look forward to 1/07/2076 when we can be expected to be
debt free after repaying them for the costs of Iraq and Afganistan
(other intervening wars permitting!)

;-)

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Dennis (Icarus) - 07 Jun 2007 04:58 GMT

> > 63rd Anniversary.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,138202,00.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

> > http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2004/france/Normandy_cem1.jpg
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> Might never of been necessary if the Americans hadn't had their hands
> over their eyes until 1941.

Sure wouldn't have been necessary if the Europeans had responded forcefully
to Hitler's re-occupation of the Rhineland.
Or had attacked after the invasion of Poland, instead of sitting around
waiting......

Dennis

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Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick - 07 Jun 2007 06:09 GMT

>> 63rd Anniversary.
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> Might never of been necessary if the Americans hadn't had their hands over
> their eyes until 1941.

Well, which is it?

Half of you say we were late, and half of you say we didn't do much, but
obviously you were tits-up either way.

We shouldn't have been involved at all, but left to you, and without our
intervention, we'd have been defending our own Atlantic and Pacific beaches
by 1945.

> Of course, the other date to remember is 31/12/2006 (or should it be
> 12/31/06) when we finally paid off what we had to borrow to fight the war.
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> ;-)

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