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Big News this morning : The George Washington statue near Fenway Park in Boston has been given the Highest Honour By the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Fans. Someone has got up there God knows how and placed a traffic cone □on his heed. 😅🤣😂😂. This is a proud moment for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. 👍🏻

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Hvert 4.år når det er VM i ball dukker denne fyren opp på TV-ruta og irriterer meg med flosklene sine.

June 11, 1944. D-Day plus 5. A 29-year-old lieutenant colonel stood up on an exposed causeway in Normandy, drew his pistol, picked up a rifle with a bayonet attached, and screamed at his men to follow him. Then he ran straight at the German machine guns. This is the story of Robert Cole, the Carentan causeway, and one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in American military history. And why he never lived to hold the medal they gave him for it. --- Five days after D-Day, the invasion was in trouble in a way that doesn't get talked about much. Utah Beach and Omaha Beach were separated by a seven-mile gap. Between them lay the town of Carentan, a crossroads city connecting the two landing zones through the low, flooded marshlands of the Cotentin Peninsula. Until Carentan was taken, the Utah beachhead was effectively isolated. If the Germans could concentrate their forces and push through that gap, they could cut the Americans in half, drive to the sea, and potentially roll up Utah Beach from the south. General Eisenhower knew this. General Bradley knew this. The men trying to take Carentan knew this. Defending Carentan was one of the most dangerous officers in the German army: Oberst Friedrich von der Heydte, commander of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment. Rommel himself had issued the order: hold Carentan to the last man. Von der Heydte's paratroopers, most of them seventeen-year-old volunteers, had already been fighting the 101st Airborne for five days and were not done. --- To reach Carentan from Utah Beach, you had to cross the causeway. It was a narrow elevated road surrounded on both sides by flooded marshes. No cover. No flanking routes. No way to bring armor forward until the road itself was clear. Any force trying to move down it was completely exposed to anyone shooting from the other end. The Germans had lined the far end with machine guns, mortars, and artillery. They had dug into hedgerows within 150 yards of the causeway's exit. Every man who moved forward was visible against the sky. By June 11, Lt. Col. Robert Cole had been moving his 3rd Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment down this causeway for two days. He had started with roughly 400 men. After nights of continuous fire in fixed positions, he had about 265 left in fighting condition. On the morning of June 11, those 265 men were completely pinned down. For over one hour, they lay flat on the causeway while German machine guns, mortars, and artillery fire swept across them. Men were dying beside Cole and he could not move. The German positions were 150 yards away. They might as well have been 150 miles. --- Cole ordered smoke grenades thrown toward the German lines. Then, with utter disregard for his own safety, he stood up. He had a pistol in one hand. He had grabbed a rifle with a fixed bayonet from a fallen soldier with the other. He turned to what remained of his battalion and shouted for them to follow him. Then he charged. Not many men followed immediately. Most were flat on the ground under fire and a human brain does not simply stand up into a machine gun because someone tells it to. But they saw Cole running. They saw him not getting shot. And then something happened that officers spend entire careers trying to understand: the battalion got up and charged with him. What followed was hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows. Rifles used as clubs. Bayonets used as bayonets. Americans and Germans fighting at arm's length in the mud and smoke. The charge worked. The German line broke. Of the roughly 265 men who charged, approximately 130 became casualties. Cole was not among them. He walked back from the hedgerows, bleeding from minor wounds, his clothes torn. He had not been seriously hit. The road to Carentan was open. --- Carentan fell the next day. For the first time since June 6, the Utah and Omaha beachheads were connected. The gap was closed. The invasion had a continuous front. Cole was immediately recommended for the Medal of Honor. His commanders described what he had done with language that rarely appears in formal military reports: they said it was extraordinary. That without it, the causeway might not have been taken that day. That he had personally turned a pinned battalion into an attacking force through nothing but the force of his own example. Cole was 29 years old. --- He never stopped leading from the front. After Normandy, the 101st returned to England to rest and refit. Cole wrote letters home, trained replacements, and waited for the next jump. In September 1944, that jump was Operation Market Garden, the massive airborne assault into the Netherlands designed to cross the Rhine and end the war before Christmas. It did not end the war before Christmas. On September 18, 1944, Cole's battalion was pinned down again, this time near the Wilhelmina Canal in Best, Netherlands. American aircraft were firing on his men by mistake. Cole ordered recognition panels placed in front of the lines to redirect the planes. When it wasn't happening fast enough, he ran out himself in front of his men to place the panels. He was looking up at the planes when a German sniper's bullet hit him in the head. He was killed instantly. Robert Cole was 29 years old. He had been in almost continuous combat since the night of June 5. --- Two weeks later, on October 30, 1944, the Medal of Honor was presented at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Present at the ceremony: Cole's widow, Allie. And his son, also named Robert, who was two years old. The little boy had been born after Cole shipped out. There are photographs of them together from one leave. Cole had never seen his son walk. He had never heard him talk. The citation read by the general that day described the causeway charge in precise, formal language. It described how Cole had risen under fire. How he had led the assault with a pistol and a bayonet. How the charge had broken the German position. It did not describe what his son looked like when they pinned the medal to his mother's dress. --- Cole is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. The causeway he charged down still exists outside Carentan. It looks much the same as it did in 1944. Flat. Exposed. A narrow road above the marsh with nowhere to hide. Every year, the town of Carentan holds a ceremony for the men who took it. Among the names always spoken is Robert Cole's. He ran into the machine guns so the invasion could continue. He was 29 years old. His son was two.

Mye av norsk offentlig ordskifte i dag består bare av å si stadig mer banale ting med stadig mer performative kostymer Ikke rart folk blir dummere

-UD bruker flere millioner på hemmelig Oslo-møte. Prislappen er på 20 millioner kroner, og deltakerlisten er hemmelig. Hvor mange av deltakerne er unge kvinner fra tidligere østblokk-land med mangelfull CV 🤭 Spør for en venn 😌

Dick Winters was wounded 82 years ago today in Carentan…what a leader. 😎 - 2 combat jumps 🪂 - 4 Campaign Stars ⭐️ - CIB 🪖 - Distinguished Service Cross 🇺🇸 - 2 Bronze Stars 🎖️ - Purple Heart 💜 - French Croix de Guerre 🇫🇷

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