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80-year-old “D-Day Prayer” still resonates today
Colorado Springs Gazette· 9 hours agoComposed days earlier with the help of FDR’s daughter and son-in-law, the words to the prayer had been published in the country’s newspapers. Inspired by...
On This Day, June 5: President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe died June 5 at age 93. File Photo by Peter Jones/UPI On this date in history: In 1933, President ...
Biden’s D-Day visit may mark the end of an American era
CNN via AOL· 4 hours agoThe new world for which the greatest generation sacrificed in the bloody surf of the Normandy...
Today’s D-Day celebration: An exercise in political propaganda and historical falsification
World Socialist Web Site· 7 hours agoThe 80th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces of the...
How D-Day’s roots will play a crucial role in Trump-Biden battle in 2024 election
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMilitary alliances that have become the subject of dispute among the 2024 presidential candidates...
Take a look inside Franklin D. Roosevelt's 21,000-square-foot mansion where he entertained royals...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"They would understand the rest and peace and strength which he had gained here and perhaps learn to...
Biden on D-Day
The Bulwark· 6 hours agoJust minutes ago, President Biden spoke at the American Cemetery in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. “The price of unchecked tyranny is the blood of ...
The Tale of the Tuskegee Airmen Is Told in a New Documentary
Time via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHe is “susceptible to crowd psychology,” “cannot control himself in the face of danger,” and does...
Farmers Helped to Make the 1944 D-Day Invasion Possible
USDA· 2 days agoDate: Wed, 06/05/2024 Broadcast: 09 Remark: Food production by farmers and civilians was a key factor in the success of the D-Day invasion 80 years ago this week. Gary Crawford has this report. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford
Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed
Billings Gazette· 4 days agoJune 5, 1944: On the morning of June 5, amid bad weather fears, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the...