Fascinating segment on 60 minutes, 'Richie boys.'

[elleng]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Boys

[cilla4progress]

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[MLAA]

2. Very interesting. I had not heard of them, so glad you posted.

[elleng]

4. Neither had I.

Interested in visiting Camp Ritchie some day. Just learned I lived near it, for a few years; it's in north/western MD, and I'm in southern MD now.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Watching this fascinating story

I admit not knowing about the Ritchie Boys.

[mucifer]

5. It's a rerun. It is fascinating

[Brother Buzz]

6. It's a rerun, but it has all new film footage

[badhair77]

7. I was unfamiliar with them also. So glad they're

being discussed and interviewed. Fascinating.

[elleng]

8. J.D. Salinger was among them!

[Deuxcents]

9. I'd love to see these wanna be Nazi guys

Go and have a sit down with any of those Ritchie Boys and learn hat it’s really like pledging to a dictator then or now. I saw this before but watched again. We should never forget the greatest generation and what they did for us.

[WHITT]

10. Wow

Jon Wertheim: Do you consider yourself a hero?

Guy Stern: God no. I tell you when we landed on Omaha beach, there were-- the whole heights had been occupied by the German artillery and I looked up on those heights and there were our American soldiers in full occupation on the day D plus 3 and I said to myself, "that can't be done." And to take those heights against heavy firing, going up those steep cliffs, and of course, it had been done. The evidence was before us. Those were the heroes.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. There's An Excellent Piece About Them...

...in an episode of the History Channel show "What History Forgot".
Great story.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Fascinating and wonderful story.

Thanks for posting.