general omar bradley later wrote six hours after the landings we held only ten yards of beach. british commander unit had half its men killed or wounded while taking the town of st. oban. a d-day veteran remembers the only thing that made me feel good was to look around and try to find somebody who looked more scared than i felt. that man was hard to find. at all the beaches and landing grounds of d-day, men saw some images they would spend a lifetime preferring to forget. one soldier carries a memory of three paratroopers dead and hanging from telephone poles like a horrible crucifixion scene. all who fought saw images of pain and death, raw and rele relentle relentless. the men of d-day also witnessed scenes they'd proudly and faithfully recount. scenes of daring and self-giving that went beyond anything the army or the country could ask. they remember a man like technician fifth grade john pender jr. whose job was to deliver vital radio equipment to the beach. he was gravely wounded before he hit shore and he kept going. he delivered the radio and instead of taking cover, we

by 8:30 a.m., general omar bradley expected our troops to be a mile inland. six hours after the landings, he wrote, we held only ten yards of beach. in this age of instant commentary, the invasion would have swiftly n roundly been declared as it was by one officer, a debacle. but such a race to judgment would not have taken into account the courage of free men. success may not come with rushing speed, president roosevelt would say that night, but we shall return again and again. and paratroopers fought through the countryside to find one another. rangers pulled themselves over those cliffs to silence nazi guns. to the west, americans took utah beach with relative ease. to the east, the british tore through the coast fueled by the fury of five years of bombs over london and a solemn vow to fight them on the beaches. the canadians, whose shore had not been touched by war, drove far into france. and here, at omaha, troops who finally made it to the seawall used it as shelter. where general barked, if you're rangers, lead the way. by the end of that longest day,

eisenhower is alone in including general omar bradley, but bradley states in his war memoir he was aboardhe uss augusta at the time of ike's decision. the eyewitnesses, a designation rapidly losing its force, further disagree on ike's movement during the final decision meeting. but was it at a conference table? or in an easy chair, as the weather man remembers? and how long did it take eisenhower to make up his mind, once his commander expressed their opinions? was it the 30 to 45 seconds he recalled in the walter conkright interview, or a full five minutes, as general smith recorded in his 1956 memoir? well, ike pondered these discrepancies in later years. and while he did not directly invoke david on howard's memoir, he agreed with the implication. he wrote when accuracy is all important, memory is an untrust wore try crutch on which to lean. how can we expect two of our individuals participants in the same dramatic occurrences of years past to give identical accounts of the event? ike of course is saying you can't. but there is more i believe to the mystery of ike's d-day words than th

eisenhower is alone in including general omar bradley in his account of the final meeting but bradley states in his 1951 war memoir that he was aboard the "uss augusta" at the time of the decision. the eyewitnesses, a designation rapidly losing its force by now, further disagree on ike's miements in the final meeting. eisenhower paced the room in the account i shared early which i got from general strong but general waller smith asserts ike sat but was it on a sofa as smith writes or at a conference table or in an easy chair? and how long did it take eisenhower to make up his mind once his commanders had expressed their opinions? was it the 30 to 45 seconds or was it, quote, a full five minutes as general smith recorded in his 1956 memoir? well, ike pondered these discrepancies in later years and while did he not directly invoke david howard's fog of war explanation, in his essay, he agreed with the simplifications. ike wrote, when accuracy is all important, memory is an untrustworthy crutch on which to lean. witnesses of an accident often give under oath contradictory testimony conce

symonds, we hear a lot of names, especially amongst the montgomery, omar bradley. but two you point out in the book you wrote, alan kirk and bertrund ramsey. who are they and why are they important to the story? >> eisenhower was the supreme allied commander mean was in charge of the entire operation. and the reason he was such a good pick for that is because of his political sensitivity. we think of a general in command as being a warrior. of course, he must be that. but the political sensitivity that made him also not a bad president, allowed him to command not just british and american forces that happened to be on the same side but a genuinely allied command. and in significance of that, the significance of that is demonstrated by the fact that all three of his subordinate commanders for ground, air and naval troops are all british. montgomery commanded all ground troops. british and american on both sides. lee malorie, tafford lee malorie commanded air forces on both sides. and for the navy,er is bertrund ramsey commanded not just the royal navy ships involved

general omar bradley, the former administrator of what is now the department of veterans' affairs once said of our work, we're dealing with veterans. not procedures. with their problems, not ours. we've come face to face with the problems of our -- problems our veterans routinely encounter and they are consider to believe say the least. as every american now knows, congressional oversight and whistleblower revelations have exposed widespread corruption, systemic delays in access and failures of accountability across our nation's second largest bureaucracy. thousands of veterans across this country have been left to wait, some for years, some in pain, and most disturbingly, some in caskets draped with an american flag. some while chronic or fatal conditionses werened until little hope -- worsened until little hope was left for the health care they earned through honorable service to our nation. meanwhile, poor-performing v.a. leaders and employees continued to receive large bonuses, subject to little accountability for their many inadequacies. there's no doubt, mr. speaker, that the dep

he was a five star marshall to our last five star marshall was omar bradley.corated man in soviet history. one of the few to be a hero of the soviet union. and he appeared, all of us have heard about in the none of us had met him. and he controlled his delegation in such a way that was brilliant to we have been dealing with all these guys who are basically, you, we take a nose about of time giving propaganda speeches, okay? that night by the o'clock, sergei akhromeyev said i want to do business. and sitting next to them, they started haranguing. it was amazing. he put his hand on the guys arm, looked at him, gave him a five star stay or. looked at him, simmer down, akhromeyev said okay, as we were saying. two or three times a minute when one of these guys would fire up, normal propaganda ploy, he would stare them down and said no, we are not doing that. and he made the greatest concessions on strategic arms to what i consider a very reasonable point of view. and so that was from 8:00 at night on saturday night and tell 620 time in the next month or then he app

bradley, lo presiona fellaini, se apoya, toca atrÁs. la opciÓn por a derecha. entrega la pelota la pone por arriba, termina cortando en todo lo alto omares un problema sin soluciÓn. ni gonzÁlez, ni besler lo pueden detener. el hombre de la mayor influencia en el encuentro en el resultado despuÉs de la actuaciÓn de howard que otra vez se vuelve casi un heroe. debajo de los tres posted del arco estadounidense para ahora seguir manteniendo viva la esperanza de la remontada y del empate. se va hazard. nacer chadli en la cancha. >> viene el trazo desde la esquina, con la mano alcanza a darle enviÓ a la pelota. seguiremos jugando desde el cuadrante por el sector de la derecha con bÉlgica. >> aquÍ estÁ el gol, el golazo de green. tomando la pelota de volea. >> la pelota por fin. los Últimos minutos se nota que estÁ interesado. la pelota que le pone perfecto. >> mediocampista por mediocampista el cambio del seÑor wilmots. >> a diferencia del partido tres diablos buscan el remate. se imponÍa gonzÁlez, puso la pelota el conjunto belga. no hay posisiÓn adelantada, recorte, terminÓ ahogado en la jugada. en la salida encontramos a green. encarando