On Friday, July 25, 2014 5:23:58 AM UTC-7, wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:17:04 -0400, Nancy Young
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> >On 7/24/2014 8:43 PM, Kalmia wrote:
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> > > As an aside, I was privileged to sing at a series of D-Day
> > >Commemorative concerts. At the American cemetery at Omaha Beach, we
> > >sang our planned anthem with hardly a dry eye, BUT when we gazed at
> > >our flag raised aloft, we broke into our national anthem. We barely
> > >got the last 'home of the brave' out, we were so overcome with the
> > >enormity of the sacrifice. I felt I really WAS at the resting place of
> > >those so young and brave. I hope this doesn't initiate another
> > >anti->Allies diatribe, but let me tell you, I never before have felt
> > >so proud to be an American.
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> You don't want a diatribe but you make it sound as if the Americans
> were the only ones there!

The story of WW II is told differently in different places. I was
in Europe during the 50th Anniversary of V-E Day, and was surprised
to read in the UK papers that "Monty" had won the war single-handedly
despite the bungling interference of that nitwit Ike.


> Just as a matter of interest, my father
> was there on D-Day, not that it matters, but he took his ship an
> rescued Dwight D. Eisenhower when his ship had gone aground and
> returned him to the UK. However, we won't remember that, it spoils
> the image I suppose.
>

This was D-Day +1 when HMS Apollo grounded (probably trying to get
the officers a better look) and HMS Undaunted gave Ike a ride home.

Wikipedia has a nice story about how Ike gave the crew of Undaunted
his General's flag, "autographed across two of the stars with an
indelible pencil dipped in whisky." The flag is now in the possession
of the National Trust for Scotland.