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[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump: "The military conflict — I call it that because it's really not much of a war."

Trump 39 minutes later: "I have to get back to fighting a war in Iran."

[Greg Vorse @GregVorse]

Josh Allen managing to be #3 on this list while only scoring 1-yard touchdowns is WILD

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@BellaBaddie__ Congress

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@Jesii_ca_M All of them.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

It's 12.25 am 6 June.

The radio message goes out.

Ham and Jam.

Ham and Jam.

The code words for two bridges.

Pegasus Bridge and another have been seized.

The first critical mission of D Day is a success.

Just ten minutes to complete one of the greatest coup de main operations in history.

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@walkamongheroes @Normandy @WW2Facts Ste. Mere E’Gliese

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

It's D Day. 4,427 Allied soldiers died today so that generations not even born, like mine, could grow up in freedom. See more at https://t.co/EEg00P06y6

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@JoeGambone @battlefieldexpl Same. All of it. 🫡

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@HawkEmDownChris Kwami Brown

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@DelReid @HawkEmDownChris Hahahahah!!!

[Dave Scarangella @DaveScarangella]

Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord.

D-Day.

I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink.

Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended.

He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006.

His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything.

His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from.

He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss.

June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach.

In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it.

“No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.”

He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach.

No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all.

That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever.

It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back.

I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison.

So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days.

Rest In Peace...

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@wydsilent

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@heatherpiperxo Yep

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[7️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ TJ @TJDMCR]

Allen had 39 touchdowns, 10 ints and a 102+ rating in just 16 games played. He averaged 29 points and 330 yards/game in the playoff's vs the top 2 defenses in the AFC.

And it's a "down year for Allen". No other QB in history gets judged like Allen does.

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@misshelenamy Yes

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@HawkEmDownChris True

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@SeizeTheNae “Send it in Jerome!”

[Khan Noonien Singh @wtfcetialpha5]

You only think about yourselves.

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@VailaMercer @NYCMayor @wemby Dumbass, it means Wemby would miss the game at the Garden…