{"id":11412,"date":"2013-09-10T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:42:08","slug":"there_s_nothing_like_seeing_normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/10\/there_s_nothing_like_seeing_normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Nothing Like Seeing Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Steve in Fruitland, Maryland. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. It\u2019s good to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos from the home of Delmarva and the land of pleasant living. I have a point I wanted to make, and I wanted to give you a special thank you, too, when I get done with that. Doesn\u2019t what Ed Asner said about Obama prove exactly what you said about Donovan McNabb?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me see. Asner said that he didn\u2019t want to be critical of Obama <\/a>because he didn\u2019t want to be thought of as anti-black.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Isn\u2019t that exactly the same thing that you said?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what I said about McNabb was that he got special treatment from the media because they didn\u2019t want to be critical of a black quarterback.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So you\u2019re saying that what Ed Asner said about Obama is pretty much what I said about McNabb, except Ed Asner\u2019s getting all kinds of accolades and credit for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. Let\u2019s not forget, Ed Asner played an editor on TV.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) He did. He was a journalist.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was back in the old days.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was a journalist on TV. Asner said he didn\u2019t want to feel “anti-black.” Part and parcel of that was, he didn\u2019t want anybody thinking he was anti-black.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but the thank you I wanted to give you is every year you talk about Normandy, about D-Day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My father hit the beach at daybreak on D-Day — and, in fact, for 25 years after he was there, he still had shrapnel coming out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was your dad at Omaha Beach?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First wave.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you been there? <\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I haven\u2019t. I\u2019d like to go someday. I\u2019ll tell you a little story. We were stationed in Germany. He was a career military, and we were stationed in Germany in the early sixties.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I think I was like 12 years old. I\u2019m the same age you are. I said to him one day, “Dad, don\u2019t you want to go to Normandy while we\u2019re this close?” And he looked at me real seriously and he said, “Son, I spent enough time there,” and I said, “Okay.” I never brought it up again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what happened there, obviously, and that had to be a traumatic prospect for him to go back there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Even though the ultimate outcome there was victory, that was a day that the survivors… Nobody wants to relive that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He never talked about it. Never.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, my dad flew P-51s in World War II in what was called the China-Burma Theater, and my brother and I would ask him about his experiences. He would not tell us how many enemy planes he shot down. He wouldn\u2019t even tell us that he did that. That\u2019s what you did in a P-51. I mean, you weren\u2019t joyriding in one of those, and he wouldn\u2019t talk about it, and neither would any of his friends in our little town when they came back. I mean, growing up in the fifties, World War II was not that long ago. They wouldn\u2019t talk about it just like your dad. They didn\u2019t brag about it. They didn\u2019t want to share any details other than when they spoke of the horror of it.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Sometimes we used to watch a show. Remember that show Combat? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We used to watch that together, and he\u2019d just sit there and laugh, and say, “Boy, what a bunch of baloney.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: What about Saving Private Ryan? Have you seen that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he\u2019d already passed before then. My brother and I went to see that. My brother has passed away, too. We went to the matinee. We were the only ones in the theater, my brother and I.<\/p>\n