In 2017, on the 4th of July, NPR published a series of tweets with the text of the Declaration of Independence. It seemed like a simple, patriotic gesture to help celebrate our Independence Day. A surprising number of Republicans didn’t quite see it that way. The more NPR published portions of the Declaration of Independence, […]
A crowd at Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday cheers as World War II veterans Ray Glansberg and Sydney Edson return home from Normandy. Sydney Edson, 100, of Lake Worth Beach, laughs as he is greeted by fellow veterans Saturday at Palm Beach International Airport. WEST PALM BEACH — American flags were draped over shoulders, […]
A crowd at Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday cheers as World War II veterans Ray Glansberg and Sydney Edson return home from Normandy. Sydney Edson, 100, of Lake Worth Beach, laughs as he is greeted by fellow veterans Saturday at Palm Beach International Airport. WEST PALM BEACH — American flags were draped over shoulders, […]
Nigel Farage is facing claims of using “dog whistle” tactics by suggesting Rishi Sunak does not understand “our culture”. The Reform UK leader made the suggestion in his attack on the UK prime minister for leaving the D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy before the main international event. Mr Farage suggested his comments were in […]
A World War II veteran has married his bride on the 80th anniversary of D-Day near the beaches of Normandy, France. Harold Terens – a 100-year-old US Army Air Force veteran living in Florida – tied the knot with 96-year-old Jeanne Swerlin on Saturday, June 8 during a ceremony in Carentan-les-Marais, in the Normandy region […]
Second World War veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin have proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot close to the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France. The Americans’ respective ages – he is 100, she is just 96 – made their nuptials an almost double-century celebration. The location was the elegant […]
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – A local chemistry teacher is highlighting a little know mission on D-Day with connections to Elmira. “You say, most folks are not aware of this mission?” asked 18 News reporter Nick Dubina. “There’s nobody, there’s nobody aware of “Mission Elmira,” said Greg Grund. “It was the largest resupply mission for the […]
POINTE DU HOC, France — Invoking the soldiers who braved Nazi fire on D-Day, President Joe Biden called upon Americans to put country first and not cast aside the democratic traditions that an earlier generation died to protect. Biden spoke one day after the 80th anniversary of D-Day, standing atop the sheer 100-foot cliff that […]
A group of American lawmakers honored the bravery of World War II veterans who took part in D-Day with a parachute jump into Normandy on Friday morning, using some of the same vintage planes that flew American paratroopers over France 80 years ago. The lawmakers are all military veterans, and were led by Reps. Jason […]
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood. U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony in honor of Waverly Woodson Jr. on […]
President Joe Biden joined a variety of world leaders in France yesterday and marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Evidently Sen. Rick Scott wasn’t impressed. After a Fox Business host accused the Democrat of “taking veiled shots” at Donald Trump, the Florida Republican reflected on his father’s World War II service before concluding: For the […]
A memorial bench has been unveiled to honour 154 men killed or injured during a battle in France, the day after D-Day. The engraved bench in Lebisey Wood, Normandy, has been set up to honour soldiers from the Royal Warwickshire regiment who took part in the campaign on 7 June 1944. Jason Woods, from the […]