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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The first reply to my post "On Memorial Day, Remember the Mothers, Children, Wives and Lovers Too" was from a high school teacher. She remembered Sgt. Ronald Kubik, one of the soldiers featured in the story. She had him in her English class. A month ago Kubik died in Afghanistan. His teacher wrote: It seems like yesterday that I taught him, but in reality, 7 years have passed since the last day of his freshman year. Ron's passing has really hit me hard. I might not have seen him in over 4 years (he always stopped by to visit even after he moved and graduated) but I am still having ...
Barack Obama went to Normandy for a reason this weekend -- and it was a good one. The president had something he wanted to convey to the world. That message, to paraphrase a point Ronald Reagan used to make, is a simple one, even if it's not an easy one: It is that freedom is not free, and that democracy is worth fighting for -- that sometimes human rights are worth dying for. ...
Numerous media outlets are reporting that President Barack Obama will travel to Normandy in June for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. But all of the available media reports rely on French President Nicholas Sarkozy's Chief of Staff, who made the announcement that Obama had agreed to attend while the president was in Strasbourg, France for the NATO summit. None of the reports contains confirmation from the White House of President Obama's travel plans. Quite the contrary, the White House provided an official "no comment" to at least two media outlets, the New ...
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