State Dept Spokeswoman Cites D-Day Anniversary As Example Of Our Great Relationship With The German Nation
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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Tuesday cited the D-Day invasion during an answer about the current state of US-German relations.
“We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany,” Nauert said. “Looking back in the history books, today is the 71st anniversary of the speech that announced the Marshall Plan. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. We obviously have a very long history with the government of Germany, and we have a strong relationship with the government of Germany.”
I look forward to the Trump administration next talking about our long history with the government of Japan on August 6.
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Even so, she knows more than her president.
The Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs is the 4th highest ranking member of the State Department.
As a former TV "journalist", one would think that after a full year at the State Department she would be more at ease in a press conference
and not spend the majority of the time looking down, reading her notes, although at other times she handled herself well enough while trying to defend the right of Ambassadors to make "ignorant" remarks.
The press release was poorly written and poorly delivered by Nauert and deserves to be criticized.
It was poorly written. The US has had a good relationship with Germany since the end of WWII (maybe a few years after...we had to get thru the Nuremberg trials first).
But in the last 50 or so years, I think Germany has been a strong ally. I think that's what she was trying to say but failed miserably.
I look at the pictures of D-Day and, think, while these guys were coming ashore by boat my dad was coming in by glider, over their heads. I don't know who had it easier, the glider guys or, the boat guys.
My great Uncle was a pilot in WW2. He liked being over the action. He always thought he had it easy until he found out what he had been bombing. He found out that they were hiding munitions underneath public buildings. He learned that one time he bombed a school building that was full at the time. He couldn't get over that.
My dad.
Great pic.
I couldn't even begin to imagine what they had to go through.
I couldn't either, my father and, history told me a lot about it but, to get my father to talk about it I had to get him really drunk and, that was hard, I'm not a heavy drinker, he could drink a Marine under the table and, then drive home. The problem with that was that he never had memory loss from drinking, he would remember what we had talked about the night before and, that is when his "memory chest" would come out, a foot locker full of pictures, his medals, his "trophy's" and, his uniform, which I can say with great pride, he still fit into even in his 80's.
Nice looking man.
I'm not very familiar with Army rank, so what is his rank in that photo?
Sargent First Class
Thanks, Kavika
I wasn't sure myself, when I saw his uniform in the trunk it had Lt. bars on it. He was scheduled to go to Korea, then he was discharged before that could happen, kind of strange story there.
My father fought in the Rhine battles in the ETO as a armorer and gunner on a .50 caliber quad unit mounted on the back of the M3 Halftracks. He saw some pretty heavy duty action. He never talked about the war until I grew up, joined the military, and came back from Vietnam. Then he opened up some, as he figured I had a better idea what he had been through. Sadly, he died in 1979 and we never got to talk as much as i would have liked. I feel he went through way more than i ever did.
My father was part of the anti-tank group in the 82nd, tough unit from what I heard, they had some epoch battles during WWII.
My cousin was with the 101st and jumped that day on Normandy...He was KIA at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. My dad was in the Marines in the South Pacific and hit the beach at Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa.
He never spoke about it either until I came back from Nam..Then he opened up some. He walked on in 1990.
My Dad missed D-DAy but many of his brothers and cousins were on the beaches that morning.
Even though they all came home alive, some were changed in so many ways. PTSD was unheard of and not understood.
Eventually they all adapted and lived long lives, but few ever spoke of the things they had to do.
D-Day is the day I reminisce and mourn their passing...
Thank you for seeding this JR
My Uncle Carl was at the Battle of the Bulge. He was my grampap's youngest brother. He told a story about Christmas Day and how all he had to eat was a cold pancake but it was the best pancake he ever had he was that hungry and cold
I hope that Trump doesnt talk to Vietnam on August 2 or September 23rd.
In a sense the Trump State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert is correct. America does have a strong relationship with Germany, especially considering the fact that America sacrificed so much to free the German people from their self imposed tyranny.
Nauert didn't refer to the German people. He was talking about the German government, which would mean Hitler. Trump has never been on good terms with Angela Merkel.
I know. I tried my best to give Trump/World a bit of credit, although totally undeserved and of course it backfired.
Besides, I am confident the Trumpers are in league with Russia to undermine our European allies. And...……..I am positive they know this.
I understand. I'm very sorry if I suggested otherwise.
I don't think tbat war was sold to the American people as "freeing the German people"...
No. The 'War' was billed to free the World from fascism.
The war (no quotation marks - it was not a simulacrum) was billed as freeing the world from evil, murderous Germans and Japanese.
I understand. I'm very sorry if I suggested otherwise.
Unsurprisingly... Nauert is a product of Fox News...
Sorry John. I didn't notice your post until after I'd posted mine. But then I posted mine as a tribute to the armed forces of America, Britain and Canada who were involved - I didn't post it for the purpose of making a political accusation.
The difference is that John's seeded article is an actual news story while yours is not...
You are comparing apples and oranges skirting the CoC [ph]
What's newsworthy in John's post? It's about relevance-lite as his usual offerings.
John seed is a news story because it is about something said recently. Thus it is news...
If you resent how the news reflects on Trump's administration take that up with Trump.
That would earn it the ever present title of FAKE NEWS which trump actually admitted he uses to discredit the media and make what he says believable. I may not be immune to propaganda but I can sure see the obvious.
More whining by the right wing contingent of this site is seen in some of these comments.