re: #94 Stanley Sea

gotcha. tks.

Short version. Daily Beast creates clickbait title, “What the D-Day Veteran Told Obama at the 70th Anniversary Commemoration” and only has one quote from a vet at the very end. It’s all just some lite fluffly opinions (whining) about Obama’s FP by Christopher Dickey. Finally at the end he gets to “what the D-Day veteran told Obama,”

When the ceremony was over, I made my way through the arrays of marble crosses to the stage and to the man in the blue hat who had taken Obama’s hand.

His name, it turns out, is Irving Smolens, and he was only 19 when he took part in the Normandy landing. Afterward he spent much of his life as a buyer of women’s and children’s clothing in Massachusetts, leading a quiet, peaceful life with his family.

“What did you say to Obama?” I asked him.

“I thanked him for keeping us out of war,” said Smolens.