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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Fri Jun 6, 2014, 02:26 PM Jun 2014

The Greatest Generation!!

President Obama sits on stage with veterans at Normandy American Cemetery at Omaha Beach as he participates in the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Colleville sur Mer

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The Greatest Generation!! (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP

My father was a WWII veteran and DURHAM D Jun 2014 #1

DURHAM D

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1. My father was a WWII veteran and

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 02:32 PM

Jun 2014

he hated that label because it implied he was somehow better than his ancestors and his children, grand children and great grand children. Also, when Tom Brokaw came on the TV he always changed the channel.

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