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Irish_Dem

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10. Yep. When they made Ike, they threw away the mold.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:36 PM
6 hrs ago

Not many like him any more.

I still don't know how he pulled off D-Day.

Weather was lousy. Men were all sea sick from sitting in rocking boats for days.
Weather was too bad to release them across the channel.
Ike finally said we gotta do it now.

And Hitler knew nothing about the invasion.
That was an an intelligence miracle on the part of the US allies.

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