Saturday, 7 June 2014
Friday, 6 June 2014
Who couldn't love a story like this! Missing D-Day veteran found in Normandy celebrating with former comrades. This is part of the reason we won the war - we had men like this on our side! Via The Daily Mail.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650882/D-Day-veteran-89-reported-missing-care-home-staff-told-travel-France-Normandy-escaping-joining-friends.html#ixzz33uykLNTgGrounded by staff at his care home, Bernard Jordan faced missing out on an emotional return to the D-Day beaches. So, summoning up the spirit and determination of June 6, 1944, he hatched a cunning plan to join his old comrades in honouring the fallen. With his medals hidden under his coat, the 89-year-old told his carers he was off for a walk. Instead he boarded a coach for France.Found: Veteran Bernard Jordan has been found in Normandy after travelling to France to mark the anniversary of D-Day. Above, the 89-year-old is pictured now (left) and during his time as a member of the Royal Navy (right)Journey: Mr Jordan (centre) pictured onboard a ferry to France with a cabin crew and members of the Candy Girls entertainment troupe
By the time staff realised he was missing the Royal Navy veteran was already in Normandy. And, thanks to his great escape, Mr Jordan was yesterday able to stand proudly among world leaders and old soldiers in marking the audacious assault 70 years ago that cost more than 4,000 Allied lives.
UPDATE:
'I loved every minute... I'd do it again tomorrow!' 'Great Escaper' D-Day veteran, 89, who sneaked off from care home to go to 70th anniversary commemorations in Normandy returns to Portsmouth but says his trip 'meant the world' to him
- Veteran Bernard Jordan, 89, sneaked out of The Pines care home in Hove
- Donning war medals under a raincoat, he joined his comrades on a coach
- Police listed former mayor as missing person - until he turned up in France
- Today he returned to hero's welcome in Portsmouth on cross-channel ferry
- He said: 'I will be in some trouble with the care home, but it was worth it'
Video - Six of the men Bowe Bergdahl's unit sat down with Megyn Kelly on Thursday, and Kelly asked them how they feel about the White House saying the attacks on Bergdahl are just "swift boating" and are motivated by partisanship. All six of them insisted their criticisms are not based in partisan politics, but in fact.
All of them agreed that "the truth needs to come out, he's not a hero," and that it was "hard to watch" him get such a glowing welcoming in the Rose Garden, given they believe Bergdahl abandoned them to seek out the Taliban and the attacks got worse when he left. And so they took offense at Susan Rice saying he served with honor and distinction.
All of them agreed that "the truth needs to come out, he's not a hero," and that it was "hard to watch" him get such a glowing welcoming in the Rose Garden, given they believe Bergdahl abandoned them to seek out the Taliban and the attacks got worse when he left. And so they took offense at Susan Rice saying he served with honor and distinction.
Kelly File: Bergdahl's Platoon members respond to demonization by the Obama admin
Today is the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. British and American veterans are set to leave Portsmouth and travel to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The World War Two veterans have journeyed from across the UK and the US ahead of a series of memorial events to be held this week. Some of the former servicemen are returning to the beaches of northern France for the first time in 70 years.Here you can see archive video footage of the landings on June 6th 1944.
D-Day as it happened - Footage of Allied Troops landing in Normandy:
Archive Video Of The D-Day Normandy Landings
D-Day as it happened - Footage of Allied Troops landing in Normandy:
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Video • Julie Andrews, the widow of slain soldier Darren Andrews talked of her reaction to news that the man her husband died searching for, was a deserter. Andrews lost his life searching for Bergdahl on September 4th, 2009. Via Fox News Hannity.
Widow of Soldier Slain in Bergdahl Search Speaks Out • Hannity • 6/4/14
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
Via The Young Turks. "The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him, veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose "selfish act" ended up costing the lives of better men.
"I was pissed off then, and I am even more so now with everything going on," said former Sgt. Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl's platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war, and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him."
Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice
"I was pissed off then, and I am even more so now with everything going on," said former Sgt. Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl's platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war, and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him."
Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice
Bowe Bergdahl's Called 'Deserter,' 'Selfish' by Fellow Soldiers
Monday, 2 June 2014
The five Taliban Terrorists leaders who were released from Gitmo to Qatari authorities today received a heroes welcome in Qatar with no signs of being in custody, much less prisoners. They are supposed to be in custody in Qatar for one year but there is no hint of them being prisoners in this video released today.
UPDATE: Former members of SGT Berghdal Unit: "Bergdahl Violated Oath when he deserted us". Via The Kelly File. Cody Full and Gerald Sutton, men who served in Bowe Bergdahl's platoon, spoke out in an interview with Megyn Kelly tonight. They described Bergdahl as an unequivocal deserter whose actions led to the deaths of other soldiers. Full said he heard Bergdahl "talking about the terrain extensively" and talking to the Afghan national police with a clear "agenda" in mind.
5 Taliban Leaders Back in Qatar - no signs of being in custody
UPDATE: Former members of SGT Berghdal Unit: "Bergdahl Violated Oath when he deserted us". Via The Kelly File. Cody Full and Gerald Sutton, men who served in Bowe Bergdahl's platoon, spoke out in an interview with Megyn Kelly tonight. They described Bergdahl as an unequivocal deserter whose actions led to the deaths of other soldiers. Full said he heard Bergdahl "talking about the terrain extensively" and talking to the Afghan national police with a clear "agenda" in mind.
The rest of the story about SGT Bowe Bergdahl" is now coming out. Amazing stuff - what do you think?
It was June 30, 2009, and I was in the city of Sharana, the capitol of Paktika province in Afghanistan. As I stepped out of a decrepit office building into a perfect sunny day, a member of my team started talking into his radio. “Say that again,” he said. “There’s an American soldier missing?” There was. His name was Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, the only prisoner of war in the Afghan theater of operations.His release from Taliban custody on May 31 marks the end of a nearly five-year-old story for the soldiers of his unit, the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. I served in the same battalion in Afghanistan and participated in the attempts to retrieve him throughout the summer of 2009. After we redeployed, every member of my brigade combat team received an order that we were not allowed to discuss what happened to Bergdahl for fear of endangering him. He is safe, and now it is time to speak the truth.And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.Read the rest of the story here.
On the night prior to his capture, Bergdahl pulled guard duty at OP Mest, a small outpost about two hours south of the provincial capitol. The base resembled a wagon circle of armored vehicles with some razor wire strung around them. A guard tower sat high up on a nearby hill, but the outpost itself was no fortress. Besides the tower, the only hard structure that I saw in July 2009 was a plywood shed filled with bottled water. Soldiers either slept in poncho tents or inside their vehicles.
The next morning, Bergdahl failed to show for the morning roll call. The soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Blackfoot Company discovered his rifle, helmet, body armor and web gear in a neat stack. He had, however, taken his compass. His fellow soldiers later mentioned his stated desire to walk from Afghanistan to India.
The Daily Beast’s Christopher Dickey later wrote that "[w]hether Bergdahl…just walked away from his base or was lagging behind on a patrol at the time of his capture remains an open and fiercely debated question.” Not to me and the members of my unit. Make no mistake: Bergdahl did not "lag behind on a patrol,” as was cited in news reports at the time. There was no patrol that night. Bergdahl was relieved from guard duty, and instead of going to sleep, he fled the outpost on foot. He deserted. I’ve talked to members of Bergdahl’s platoon—including the last Americans to see him before his capture. I’ve reviewed the relevant documents. That’s what happened.
Our deployment was hectic and intense in the initial months, but no one could have predicted that a soldier would simply wander off. Looking back on those first 12 weeks, our slice of the war in the vicinity of Sharana resembles a perfectly still snow-globe—a diorama in miniature of all the dust-coated outposts, treeless brown mountains and adobe castles in Paktika province—and between June 25 and June 30, all the forces of nature conspired to turn it over and shake it. On June 25, we suffered our battalion’s first fatality, a platoon leader named First Lieutenant Brian Bradshaw. Five days later, Bergdahl walked away.
His disappearance translated into daily search missions across the entire Afghanistan theater of operations, particularly ours. The combat platoons in our battalion spent the next month on daily helicopter-insertion search missions (called "air assaults”) trying to scour villages for signs of him. Each operations would send multiple platoons and every enabler available in pursuit: radio intercept teams, military working dogs, professional anthropologists used as intelligence gathering teams, Afghan sources in disguise. They would be out for at least 24 hours. I know of some who were on mission for 10 days at a stretch. In July, the temperature was well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit each day.
Update - The Daily Mail is all over the story:
'Bowe Bergdahl deserted and these Americans lost their lives searching for him': The bitter backlash from soldiers who served with Taliban POW as the SIX men who were killed looking for him are revealed
- The Facebook group 'Bowe Bergdahl is NOT hero!' has 5,400 members
- Men who served in his unit in Afghanistan are now emerging to say they believe Bergdahl deserted before he was captured
- Bergdahl e-mailed his parents saying he 'was ashamed to be an American'
- Military seems to acknowledge Bergdahl, 28, could have committed some kind of violation
- However, officials say he likely won't be punished: 'five years is enough'
- Former squad leader said Bergdahl always talked about seeing what was on the other side of the mountains
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Sunday Night Concert. Amazing full video of Bon Jovi performing in Cleveland, OH last year. Bon Jovi and the band have been performing for 31 years now - their concerts are amazing! We think you will love this show!
Bon Jovi Live At Cleveland 2013 Full Concert HD
Concert Play List:
01:11-You Give Love A Bad Name
04:57-Raise Your Hands
09:59-Lost Highway
15:45-Because We Can
20:08-That's What The Water Made Me
26:41-It's My Life
30:50-Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
39:50-What About Now
44:40-Work For The Working Man
49:13-We Got It Goin' On
54:11-Keep The Faith
01:03:58-Amen
01:08:33-Bed Of Roses
01:18:02-I'll Be There For You
01:28:04-Runaway
01:32:58-We Weren't Born To Follow
01:38:10-I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
01:44:46-Wanted Dead Or Alive
01:50:58-Who Says You Can't Go Home
01:57:05-Bad Medicine
02:06:50-(You Wan't To) Make A Memory
02:11:30-In These Arms
02:17:46-Born To Be My Baby
02:25:00-Have A Nice Day
02:31:38-Livin' On A Prayer
02:37:46-I Love This Town
02:43:20-Always
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