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What Do You Think Our Boys Died For On Omaha Beach?

by: The Grand Panjandrum

Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 06:29:44 AM EDT

(If there's more powerful testimony for helping our neighbors in Maine than this, I don't know it. - promoted by Dean Barker)

The Grand Panjandrum :: What Do You Think Our Boys Died For On Omaha Beach?

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Wow Dean -- Incredibly Powerful (4.00 / 1)

In under four minutes, this very good American sums up the cause of equality.

I'm going to E-Mail this to each New Hampshire House and Senate member who had voted against House Bill 436 before we vote on the legislation that would repeal marriage equality this coming January.

This man's words are incredibly powerful. He reminds us not only did America fight for equality in a world war, but that our gay friends died at Omaha Beach as well as our straight friends.

His is a message everyone should hear. Thank you for posting this.

by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 08:15:54 AM CDT

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Thank YOU, Grand Panjandrum (4.00 / 5)

I should thank YOU, Grand Panjandrum, for posting this -- Dean had promoted it to the front page. Fantastic. Seeing this man speak is a wonderful way to start a sunny Saturday. It should bring a smile, and a tear, to anyone viewing it. It's my nomination for among the BlueHampshire Top 10 Posts Of The Year!

by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 08:21:30 AM CDT

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A Tear from the Heart of Patriotism (4.00 / 3)

Wow.
This is the essence of all I was taught in the 1950s about what makes America great.
Should be required viewing for all homophobes who call themselves Americans.
Certainly on the top ten for 2009.
Thanks!

No'm Sayn?

by: BurtCohen @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:02:00 AM CDT

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Some people never stop giving for us all. (4.00 / 5)

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.

by: Paul Twomey @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:26:53 PM CDT

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really powerful in its simplicity (4.00 / 1)

he is one of the many among us from that time who know just what people fought and died for. I hear them painedly wondering what's gone wrong in our civic life.

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg

by: JonnyBBad @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 13:28:48 PM CDT

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Very nice. (0.00 / 0)

by: eyore33 @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 16:47:26 PM CDT

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Here's another fine video ...... (4.00 / 3)

.... to buck-up our friends in Maine. Not produced in the USA ... but from Ireland instead.

"We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."

by: Ed Tracey @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 18:50:00 PM CDT

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wow. brilliant. n/t (4.00 / 3)

Democrats solve problems, Republicans sit and say no.

by: Ray Buckley @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 21:09:05 PM CDT

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Go seoigh!!! (wonderful) (4.00 / 3)

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.

by: Paul Twomey @ Sun Oct 18, 2009 at 13:32:29 PM CDT

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Incredible (4.00 / 1)

for me to think that this son of Mainer potato farmer shared a battlefield in Belgium with my grandfather, Bronx-raised son of immigrants.

by: Dean Barker @ Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 20:05:48 PM CDT

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