he is an army veteran master sergeant among the troops that landed on omaha beach in 1954 and was previously awarded two bronze stars an i purple heart. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only $24.90 more per month. our lowest price ever on this offer. but only for a limited time. call today. comcast business. built for business. >>> time for sports and jeff is here and the phillies three out of four against a good team. >> how great with hoskins hitting the ball over and over again. they were looking to sweep chase utley and the best team, they have not had a sweep over the dodgers since '08 when they went to win it all. a lunch date and uh-oh the big green guy is messy. the phillies have not been a mess against l.a. nick williams the two-run sh

he served in k company's 331st infantry regimen, eighty-third division landing on omaha beach, june 6thevent of 1944 other hats off to mr. horvath. >> 100 percent. >>> that ace look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. up next pat's here with your morning sports. good morning, pat. >> we will get you caught up on day one of the sixers training camp and what the coach is seeing in his talented roster. >>> plus we will go behind the scenes with carson wentz. we will talk about what he offered up for jake elliott if he made that 61-yard [rooster crow] honey, what are you doing? watching a cow...? what's it doing? impressions. this september, get one of three breakfast items free when you order with the chick-fil-a one app. >>> welcome back everyone we're glad you are waking up with us. >> pat's here with sports and we're talk about the sixers camp continuing today. >> yes, we are, it must have felt like christmas day for sixers head coach brett brown with training camp underway brown has a roster stocked with impressive talent, for the first time in his tenure. during hi

you know, the greatest generation when we landed in normandy, omaha beach, juneau beach. we covered that. you didn't hear all kinds of excuses from general eisenhower or fdr. they weren't concerned the community wasn't ready to accept them in northern france or the weather wasn't good. they did what they could to make it happen. administrator long is a capable guy. he's doing the best he can. fema is an amazing organization, but it starts at the top. there's no leadership. there's no executive skills coming out of that white house. and unfortunately the american citizens that comprise puerto rico are the ones suffering the consequences. >> it's actually the opposite, sir. we've been having -- in the first few days after this whole thing while everybody was concerned about the nfl, the president was not tweeting about puerto rico. and when he did tweet about puerto rico, his first response was about how if they hadn't -- >> how they owe wall street banks money. if i was like the mom earlier today who hasn't been able to speak to her son or the women tweeting at me about th

he strode along omaha beach for hours. hea series of columns, described what he saw to readers. "so you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive to did it for you." he saw submerged tanks and overturned boats and trucks and shell-shattered jeeps. there were bodies of soldiers lying in roads covered with blankets. the toes of their shoes sticking up in a line as if on a drill. and other bodies, uncollected, still sprawled grotesquely in the sand or half hidden by the high grass beyond the beach, he wrote. there was, he said, a thin line, just like a high watermark, for miles along the beach. it was strewn with personal gear, gear that would never be needed again, of those who fought and died to give us our entrance into europe. there were soldiers packs toothbrushes, hand grenades. soap, cigarettes. it seemed a pure miracle that allied forces had succeeded. pyle had protected his readers, just as surely as a censor would. he described the dead on the beach with out talking about how explosive force could terror -- could tear a body to pi

reporter: hour advantage served in the k company 331 inn can free regimen 83rd division landing on omaha beachecalls he found himself concreting concrete bunker objection beside germans and french and he new innocent people's lives were on the line. >> my dad didn't want to shoot anybody. he wanted to spare the french citizens there. so he managed to take the german soldiers without any violence. >> reporter: his youngest daughter giselle wouldn't have missed today's ceremony fort world. >> it's really amazing for most of my life i had no idea about what my dad did in world war ii. he never spoke of it. i'm so proud of him. i always was, but it just means so much. >> reporter: hour advantage also received a bronze star from the us hammer for that compassionate war decision he made 73 years ago. he did wind up getting shot in the leg that fateful day and spent four months recuperating g in a hospital in he know land. dawn timmeney fox 29 news. >> how cool is that. >> um-hmm. >>> up next leaders in one local county have just launched another front in the war against the opioid epidemic. they are

that happened alone at omaha beach in one day. these gentlemen have seen and experienced things to a far greater degree than pretty much every other generation, so one of the things we would like to do is get them the chance to talk about themselves a little bit, and we will open up for questions, and where the discussion leaves is up to you -- leads is up to you because we want you to leave with some valuable, tangible information you can use to teach your fellow students, teachers, and bring some of this information back. why don't we start with colonel riffe? if you would like to say a few words and tell the army about your experience. what would you like them to be able to impart to the students about world war ii that is maybe not being taught, maybe not being discussed the way you feel it should be? col. riffe: what i would like for you to take away is the fact that the -- those of us who served in world war ii are noted as the greatest generation, and i have always had some exceptions to that because i remember the millions