Trump has a vivid imagination (see story here), and so does the artist who painted the picture below. In real life, he’s a draft dodger who called World War 2 heroes “suckers and losers.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Posts Tagged ‘World War 2’
June 9th, 2024 - 10:48 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pegasus Bridge
Pegasus Bridge (it acquired this name after the war) is a famous D-Day site. As the photo shows, it’s quite small. Actor Richard Todd, who portrayed Major John Howard in The Longest Day, helped defend it against German counterattacks. Today the original bridge is a war memorial. Return to The-[...]
Tom Hanks reflects on D-Day (video)
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Tomorrow marks D-Day, and we’ve learned nothing
June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. We’re now four generations removed from that fateful day, and only a handful of its veterans are still alive to remind us of the lessons America should learn from that war. Before World War 2, America was isolationist, and caught [...]
June 3rd, 2024 - 11:54 pm § in Misc.
Why this WW2 medic didn’t get a Medal of Honor
Denied admission to artillery officer candidate school because of his race, Waverly Woodson (photo, left), who died at age 83 in 2005, was trained to be a combat medic, given the rank of corporal, and landed with Omaha Beach’s third wave on D-Day. Woodson was wounded before getting ashore; a G[...]
August 7th, 2022 - 1:08 pm § in America
Known at last, and coming home
Pvt. David Owens of Green Hill, North Carolina, described as “among the first” to land on June 6, 1944, was reported missing in action on November 22, 1944, in the Hurtgen Forest, scene of some of the Western Front’s most vicious fighting after D-Day. The Germans never listed him a[...]
Yale study says Russia sanctions are working as intended
“No path out of economic oblivion for Russia as sanctions crush Putin’s regime,” the Raw Story headline reads (story here). That conclusion is the result of a study by a Yale professor in business management (c.v. here) who advises CEOs and U.S. presidents. He’s not a neutral[...]
May 30th, 2022 - 5:19 pm § in Misc., News Media
Do facts matter?
New York mayor Eric Adams (bio here) tried to compose an inspiring Memorial Day message, but got himself ridiculed instead (see story here). Speaking at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (website here), whose star attraction is the U.S.S. Intrepid, a World War 2 aircraft carrier preserved as [...]
Author Boris Pahor dies at 108
Boris Pahor (photo, left), a prominent Slovene writer, has died at age 108 (see story here). Pahor (bio here) was “one of the most important” Slovenian-language authors of the 20th century. His best-known work, an autobiographical novel titled “Necropolis,” recounts the 15 mo[...]