Maria Sheller 🇺🇸🦅

Love books and history. 🇺🇦

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Robert Capa's amazing shot was taken around this time. Note the soldiers pinned down on the beach. 900 Americans were killed on Omaha. Capa survived and his images are the iconic photos of Omaha. See more on https://t.co/EEg00P0EnE

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

#OTD in 1944, a fifty-six-year-old brigadier general waded ashore at Utah Beach, walking with a cane.

He was the oldest man in the D-Day invasion, and the only general to land with the first wave at Utah Beach. He was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — eldest son of the twenty-sixth president, a soldier who had been wounded and gassed in the trenches of the First World War a quarter-century earlier, and who had asked three times for permission to lead the assault before the Army said yes.

The currents at Utah Beach pushed the first landing craft about a mile off course. The men who came ashore looked up to find an unfamiliar shoreline and no clear plan. Roosevelt walked the beach, took his bearings against the landscape, and made a decision: they would attack from where they were. "We'll start the war from right here," he said.

Thirty-six days later, on July 12, 1944, Roosevelt died in his sleep of a heart attack in Normandy. He never made it home. His Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously — for the morning he steadied a beach full of men under fire, on terrain that was not the terrain he had been promised, and decided the war would go forward anyway.

He was the son of a man who once charged up Kettle Hill at the head of the Rough Riders. He died serving the country his father had served, in a war his father did not live to see.

#OTD #OnThisDay #DDay #TheodoreRooseveltJr #UtahBeach #MedalOfHonor #DareGreatly

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise49]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Since today is the anniversary of D-Day, allow me to remind you of who was the original Antifa.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

On April 18, 1975, at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton Hotel, John Lennon performed three songs: “Slippin’ and Slidin’” (a Little Richard cover), “Stand by Me” (Ben E. King’s classic), and “Imagine.” It was his final public performance. Here’s a clip from it.

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

(1/5) 60 years ago, my father and mother traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to speak with students fighting against Apartheid: https://t.co/4RjN01tM8i

[Scott Paterno, Shabbos Goy @ScottPaterno]

If any of you out there haven’t seen Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, the pair have the most realistic, and terrifying, depictions of D-Day.

Boys barely old enough to drink piled into Higgins boats and stormed fortified heights.

The courage is unfashionable today.

[Michael Antonelli @BullandBaird]

One of my prized possessions.

An actual letter given to soldiers on D Day.

I got it from a collectibles shop on Maine about 15 years ago.

I read it every June 6 to remind myself that others have died so I may live free.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Out of 16.4 million Americans who served in WWII, only about 40,000 are still alive.

They’re dying at a rate of ~100 per day.

These are the heroes who saved the world from tyranny.

Find one. Thank one. Listen to their stories.

While you still can.

[Lindsay Berra 〽️ @lindsayberra]

Before Grampa Yogi wore #Yankees pinstripes, he wore #USNavy blue. Arguably the most important team he was ever on was the 6-man crew of his 36-foot rocket boat, dropped into the waters off of Omaha Beach to provide cover fire for our troops going ashore #DDay #DDay81 #ItAintOver

[Tom Winter @Tom_Winter]

Generational courage in the face of tyranny and evil.

June 6, 1944.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“We saw no sign of fear in him. Watching him made men of us. Marching or fighting, he was leading. We followed him because there was nothing else to do.” https://t.co/37sssUfExW

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

I had the great privilege of being a part of the @AmericanAir 80th anniversary of D-Day landing & send off ceremony for WWII veterans a few years ago. Today they released this lovely documentary from that trip. Thank you to all our WWII veterans and everyone who made this trip possible. https://t.co/qDwRMoLzSA

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[National Memorial Day Concert @MemorialDayPBS]

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Charles Durning was among the thousands of Americans who stormed the beaches of Normandy. Today, we honor his legacy by sharing the Purple Heart recipient’s powerful firsthand account from the 2004 National Memorial Day Concert.
#MemDayPBS #DDay #CharlesDurning #WWII

[Yogi Berra Museum @YogiBerraMuseum]

June 6, 1944, Seaman Second Class Lawrence P. Berra was manning a 36-foot rocketboat off the coast of Normandy. The @yesnetwork and our friend @boblorenz interviewed Yogi about his experience that day at the Museum, and Yogi remembered it all too well. #DDay

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

REAL FOOTAGE OF OMAHA BEACH | 4K COLORIZED

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

D-Day commemoration, Omaha Beach, June 6 2024

Zelensky arrived, the crowd applauded. And then this happened:

🇺🇸 veteran: You’re a saviour of the people

Zelensky: No, no, you saved Europe

🇺🇸 veteran: My hero

Zelensky: No, you are our hero

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.

And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.

I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Hunter Biden is going to be a big, big problem for the GOP. Listen to what he’s saying here. He literally has receipts.