Incredible Images Show Deadly Result of D-Day Rehearsal on the Ocean Floor

The Blaze    "An unmanned submarine has recorded some of the most detailed images of two American ships that sank off the coast of England during World War II, according to the Massachusetts company that surveyed the wreckage to mark the disaster’s 70th anniversary.

"Bourne, Mass.-based Hydroid says they are the first high-definition sonar images of two ships sunk by German forces during Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion. The torpedo attack on April 28, 1944, claimed the lives of 749 U.S. soldiers and sailors."

This is Why Liberals Fear The Koch Brothers

American Glob  "The liberal obsession with the Koch Brothers is remarkable. Not since George W. Bush or maybe Sarah Palin has the left gotten so much mileage out of vilifying someone. One difference with the Koch Brothers is that they’re private citizens, not elected officials.

"The left has tried to blame everything on the Kochs. They’re using the kitchen sink strategy to paint them as the most evil men on Earth. So what’s it all about? I have a theory. It begins with this piece by Matt Lewis of The Daily Caller…
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No End in Sight for Federal Policy of ‘Dumping’ Illegal Immigrants in Arizona, Gov. Brewer Says

The Right Planet    "The vindictiveness and pettiness of the Obama Administration never ceases to amaze me. Apparently, in an effort to stick it to Arizona for past “transgressions,” the feds are dumping illegal immigrants at bus stations in Arizona.

..."It looks like the Obama regime is applying the Cloward-Piven strategy to illegal immigration—overwhelm the system with impossible demands until it breaks, then clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” … create the problem, foment the reaction, then provide the solution. "

American Nazi gives Hitler Salute from Rose Garden

American Thinker

"No, it didn’t happen exactly that way this week. But hippie jihadist Bob Bergdahl got his chance to stage a classic agitprop stunt (“spontaneously,” of course), by twice reciting the jihadist credo in Arabic as a public signal of surrender to the Haqqani terror network in Afghanistan --- a bunch of evil killers who rival the Taliban in their militant hatred for the United States.

"And Obama just gave our American jihadist a little smile. But what does Obama know? He’s just a passenger on this cruise ship to hell." ...

Freed soldier Bowe Bergdahl’s welcome cancelled

The Scotsman

 

... "The Chamber of Commerce has also received dozens of emails and calls from detractors, many lambasting the town, Ms Drussel and the chamber for supporting Sgt Bergdahl, calling him un-American and a traitor.

"Ms Drussel said she has not received any direct threats, but with all the vitriol, she worried the town would not have enough security. She said: “It’s upsetting because this is where people live in peace and harmony. The joy has all of a sudden become not so joyful.”

"Ms Drussel added that the event had never been planned to be a “hero’s welcome,” but more of a welcome home ceremony as Sgt Bergdahl is reunited with this family.

"She was saddened by all the hateful messages, saying: “He and his family will never know a normal life.' ”
So sad on several levels.

Krauthammer "Free him, then try him"

Charles Krauthammer  Video

 ... "The swap itself remains, nonetheless, a very close call. I would fully respect a president who rejected the deal as simply too unbalanced. What is impossible to respect is a president who makes this heart-wrenching deal and then does a victory lap in the Rose Garden and has his senior officials declare it a cause for celebration. The ever dutiful, ever clueless Susan Rice hailed it as “an extraordinary day for America.”

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"The Rose Garden stunt wasn’t a messaging failure. It’s a category error. The president seems oblivious to the gravity, indeed the very nature, of what he has just done. Which is why a stunned and troubled people are asking themselves what kind of man they have twice chosen to lead them."

A D-Day Veteran Politely Declines Obama Invitation

John Fund ..."This week, George received a call from the White House, who said they knew he would be over in France during D-Day, and wondered if he would attend a private meeting the White House was arranging for veterans with President Obama.

"George thought about it for awhile and concluded he just couldn’t. “I have so many issues with the president’s policies, including the most recent ones,” he told me ruefully.  “I just couldn’t convince myself to do it.”

"He is not alone. The recent Bergdahl prisoner swap in which five hardened Taliban terrorists were released from prison is rubbing a lot of the military veterans attending D-Day events the wrong way.  “It’s not that we don’t want to respect the commander-in-chief,” one told me sadly. “It’s just that he makes it so hard to do so.”     (Emphasis added, TD)

Vision of Normandy

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D-Day

Preparations and landing at Normandy  Photo slide show.

D-Day Mega Gallery 

Animated Map: The D-Day Landings

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D-Day 70th anniversary: Ministry of Defence releases rare aerial photographs showing planning – and chaos – of ‘largest single military operation in the history of warfare’

"With preparations in full swing for the world to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-day beach landings this Friday, the Ministry of Defence has released a series of photographs that show the chaos of the Normandy assault in fascinating detail."

"The images were captured in a series of around 30 sorties made by planes flying just 1,000ft above the battlefield on 6 June, 1944, and provided vital information about how the meticulously-planned operation was progressing."

 

Below: Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944. The difficulty of this landing is evidenced by the many vehicles destroyed at the waters edge.

 

 Aerial view of the invasion fleet  Raw footage with no sound.

 

British Pathe' news footage of the Normandy invasion

 

 The President's Prayer on D-Day

...And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen. 

 

Someone in the Obama Admin Should Read This (out loud) to the Cabinet

Blackfive

 

EXCLUSIVE: Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity, secret documents show

Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity, secret documents show  " U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a "mujahid," or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account and obtained by Fox News.

 Mushtaq Yusufzai: Taliban Commanders Say They Found Bergdahl Cursing His Countrymen


"The Taliban found Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl walking alone, acting abnormally and cursing his countrymen before they captured him in Afghanistan in 2009, two men who were Taliban commanders at the time told NBC News on Thursday.

 

"They said that Afghan locals first informed fighters about the soldier, and then the fighters rushed to capture him.

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"The commander who left in 2010 said that, at least through that time, Bergdahl did not convert to Islam.

 

“ 'Think he had deserted his army with a mission and wanted to accept Islam, but our people didn’t trust him. That shattered his belief,” he said."   Full article

Admin Official Suggests Bergdahl Squadmates are ‘Psychopaths’    From The Right Scoop
"That’s why they are coming out now, to restore the truth in the face of lies coming from the Obama administration.

"There is NOT ONE soldier who has come out to defend Bergdahl. Not one. If there was any credibility to the White House’s ‘story’ on Bergdahl, I assure you there would be several, if not many."

Noted Right Winger Chris Matthews Blasts “Nasty Deal” to Get Bergdahl

American Glob  "Here’s a question for leftists like Van Jones, Michael Tomasky and Joan Walsh to chew on.
"If criticism of the Bergdahl deal is just another chapter in the vast right wing conspiracy, why does "MSNBC’s Chris Matthews have a problem with it?
"Via the Washington Free Beacon…

Matthews Blasts Bergdahl Deal as ‘Nasty,’ ‘Disreputable,’ ‘Driven By Our Enemies’
MSNBC host Chris Matthews has made no secret of his dismay over the Obama administration’s release of five Taliban commanders to get back suspected deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, calling it “disreputable” and a “nasty deal” in the “Let Me Finish” portion of Hardball Wednesday.