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1. #101
   On June 8th, 2009 at 3:18 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

   On June 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm, Ragspierre said:

   Had [JFK] lived, and been re-elected, we would have been spared the catastrophic Johnson years and their vile legacy of dependency.

   I believe JKF was assassinated by the communists for the express purpose of elevating the communist Johnson to the Presidency.

   Johnson’s policies were devastating to us both domestically and in the way he made our military fight with one arm tied behind their back.

   JFK was the last anti-Communist Democratic President.

   And we’ve really only had one anti-Communist Republican President: Reagan.

2. #102
   On June 8th, 2009 at 3:34 am, conservative in europe said:

   RedPill,

   I disagree. Not with everything but I don’t think Johnson was a Commie. I think he was just an old fashioned crooked politician who knew exactly what he could get away with. He knew he could guarantee the Black vote for Democrats for decades by passing the Civil Rights act, he knew he could get away with transferring all of his interest in Sea Land to LadyBird, grant them exclusive contracts and escalate Vietnam all at the same time and I’m pretty sure he knew that he could kill a sitting President and get away with it (#’s 1 and 2 are fact, #3 is my theory). The man made Huey Long look like a Church Deacon.

   JFK was anti-Communist because he had to be. No other reason. His Father and both his brothers were raging Socialists. Jack could be nothing less. He stood up to the Russians by screwing over Turkey and tying the CIA’s hands on Cuba. Had he gone forward with Bay of Pigs, none of this would be an issue.

   Finally, Reagan was, of course, the great defeater of Communism but Ike and Truman have to be given credit. They understood what it meant to fight.

3. #103
   On June 8th, 2009 at 3:47 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

   conservative in europe, thanks for your comment. I agree that Ike and Truman have to be given credit.

   When I said that Reagan was the only anti-Communist Republican President we’ve had, I was thinking (but didn’t explicitly say) post-JFK.

   —
   Back on topic, for those who are looking at this post for the first time on Monday morning, be sure to go back and read the comments on page 1… there are a lot of good ones.

4. #104
   On June 8th, 2009 at 4:24 am, graysonret said:

   JFK would be considered a conservative today, which shows how far left the party has gone. For example, his “paradox of economics” speech stated that to raise revenues, the government needs to “lower” taxes, not raise them. “Going to the moon” would be rediculed today. Democrats love to praise him, but probably have no idea of who he was, other than being assassinated.

5. #105
   On June 8th, 2009 at 7:21 am, Kevin K. said:

   ITookTheRedPill, I think Nixon was thoroughly anti-communist as well. He certainly had that reputation until he “opened” China in or about 1972. His and Kissinger’s Realpolitik was a way of containing communism and coming up with ways of struggle that were less likely to blow up the world. (Of course, his most prominent anti-communist credentials were pre-JFK.)

   Going back to the original topic, I have been enjoying reading about our remembrances of D-Day or our favorite veterans. My late father fought in the Pacific (Navy man), and the landing on Omaha Beach was possibly the most important feat that the 29th Infantry Division ever performed (I was in the “light” version for a year in the 1990s). Thanks for the remembrances of people and times past. Thanks for the thread, Michelle.

6. #106
   On June 8th, 2009 at 11:09 am, plymouthacclaim said:

   On June 7th, 2009 at 11:49 am, happyscrapper said:

   They have no clue what “Pioneer spirit” even means. They have never had to use that spirit. Americans have had that since the 1600’s when we left our homelands and everything we knew and came to this strange land.

   Euros have no pioneer spirit because everyone with pioneer spirit left Europe to come to America.

7. #107
   On June 8th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, nail49 said:

   Stand on the sand at Omaha beach, with your back to the ocean and look at the cliffs/bluffs behind the open land that those men had to cross after making it out of the water.

   GladzKravtz: I had the privilege of visiting Normandy twenty years ago. I split off from the War College group I was with as we toured the American cemetery and made my way alone to the cemetery’s edge where I could look down on the sea. I decided to walk from there to the water’s edge promising myself I would not look back until I was standing on the wet sand. It was low tide and I walked downhill picking my way through the sand dunes until the waves were licking at my shoes. Then, and only then, did I turn around, and I very nearly fell over backwards as I looked UP at the land as it rose away from the sea. No, it wasn’t THAT steep, rather it was a daunting sight to behold, knowing the German’s held the tactically superior ‘high ground’ with their positions dug in and fortified and shooting at men struggling through surf and obstacles with mines on them. It was the same view our brave soldiers had as they stepped off their landing craft and yet they pressed onward.

   To commemorate my experience, I stooped down and picked up a small black pebble which I kept it in my pocket until one day several years later when a retired AF general in my church told the story of his 19-year old father who waded ashore on D-Day with his TN National Guard unit of combat engineers. Thirty days later this man’s father was one of only 50 survivors from his unit. I gave him that pebble in honor of his father and all the other brave soldiers who mortgaged their lives for freedom that day.

8. #108
   On June 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pm, nail49 said:

   happyscrapper: I love your Dad too! My niece married a young LT with the 82nd a year ago — OOH-RAH!

   My Dad went across Utah on D+20 as a Buck Sgt artilleryman. He intially was in the Ste Mare Eglise (Sp?) area and I still have the map on which he plotted where gliders dotted the landscape. He left SME some three weeks later and continued on into Germany with with Patton’s 3rd Army.

   My Mom was with the Royal Artillery (shot AAA at German aircraft) — her unit also deployed to the Continent and she was in Antwerp on V-E Day.

9. #109
   On June 8th, 2009 at 11:10 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

   65 years ago we defeated fascism in the form of the Nazis.

   Now, Europe is being taken over by other fascists:

   Sarkozy: “The Islamization of Europe is inevitable”