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BobTheSubgenius

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17. Any man that walked away from Omaha beach should have spent the rest of his life feeling lucky.

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 02:32 PM

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It was a horror.....yet not even close to the horror of Sandy Hook - or any one of dozens of others you could name.

(this doesn't seem to be common knowledge, but seeing that Omaha was more like an abattoir than a military operation, Ike considered sounding retreat. What a disaster that would have been)

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