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POPSSpyns Former Clients If you want a tour of France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, or Morocco, I highly suggest Spyns. They are a company that do active tours of these areas on bike and foot.
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POPS They Came To Destroy America 
was also a U.S. citizen. The Nazis were captured before they could launch their terrorist attacks against rail lines, waterways and factories. President Roosevelt ordered them tried by military commission, but the detainees filed a petition of habeus corpus to challenge their military detention using the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. Could the president arrest and detain such persons in the United States without involving the judiciary? Unanimously, the Supreme Court ruled that he could. Saboteurs without uniforms were "enemy combatants" and therefore subject to military jurisdiction. Even Haupt, the U.S. citizen, could be so held. The Supreme Court stated: "Citizens who ... enter this country bent on hostile acts are enemy belligerents within the meaning of the Hague Convention ..." Thus, as far back as 1942, the Supreme Court clearly described the legal status of enemy combatants. No President -- not Lincoln, not Wilson, not Roosevelt, not Kennedy -- no President has
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POPSCyril Ellis - a hero
Heroes are so often quiet people who do little to arouse notoriety until they are called on to do superhuman things. They are abound today in the mountains of Afghanistan, a legacy of past generations cemented on tradition and loyalties established by giants like Cyril Ellis. Cyril answered the call along with others of his generation and his family; his brother Ronnie was a sergeant of Guards, Cyril became a Royal Marine and was one of the original Commandos. When Britain was able to go on the offensive to Free Europe, it was the types of Cyril Ellis who led the way. He fought with great distinction, and many say he ought to have been decorated, at Salerno where, as an acting colour-sergeant, led his troop to capture German artillery and prevent a massive counter-attack from a strong and well equipped foe. Subsequently, whilst with 41 Commando, he was involved with the assault on D-Day beaches of Normandy, and in late autumn of that year in the reckless and magnificent assault
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POPSAnother Side of War: The Photographs of Manuel Bromberg "With their blurred forms of soldiers wading through the frigid Atlantic towards probable death, with their landing craft floating ineffectually in the far distance and the German anti-tank defense system rising like surreal teeth around them, these photographs are a crystallization of the fear and terror of war (they are also the inspiration behind the first harrowing minutes of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan). They are justifiably famous."
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POPSNormandy Propeties at Reduced Prices The market for Normandy Properties is bottoming out presenting an opportunity for second home owners and investors to make substantial gains. Contact the Worldwide Propety Group for full details.
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POPSNo Contest!!!!!ks she can give it up if she think those match sticks can hold a candle to the first ladies legs. Give it up Frenchie.
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POPS1st Lady Mean Mugging What's up with the first ladies? Why was Michelle Obama mean mugging ? Whats up with the attitude Michelle?
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POPSThe D-Day commemorations: The living and dead, comrades again more (at source): The political and media row over the 65th anniversary of D-Day has obliged us to ask, and answer, a difficult question. Why do we carry on commemorating events such as the Battle of Normandy? How should we do it? What will we do when we no longer have the old British men, and women – more than 600 of them – who marched in comradeship (and sometimes in tears) in Bayeux and Arromanches yesterday? Or, for that matter, the hundreds of American and Canadian veterans who paraded at Omaha and Juno?
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POPSObama: Normandy. Inchon. Khe San. Gettysburg, et. al.
It's Not that the content of President Obama's speechs are extraordinary or his ability to give one second to none but for those of us who notice such things he goes around hitting Home Runs out of the ballpark like he's Babe Ruth or Hank Arron...or you might say he's a striker who's gonna take the team to the World Cup. Put aside all the criticism he gets daily in the corrosive media - he has a tremendous love of his country, it's struggles and it's history . It's very inclusive of us all. Finally, after 65 years of praising Normandy someone mentions Inchon & Khe San. It's also very balanced, he see the good and the bad but knows that better is better. He's said, 4example, the war in Iraq was W-R-O-N-G. Has any president every said a war was wrong before? Of course this may not be everyone's cup of tea but to honor the dead soldier in a nation's struggles is a worldwide and (sorrowful) eternal task, Here, his speech tolls the Liberty Bell. May we all come to rest in
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POPSObama Family Feted in Paris Millions of us here in the States are very touched and grateful for so much of the world's good will towards the Obamas. Thank you. We're quite pleased with them, ourselves although everyday we are bombarded with corrosive media coverage that finds something to complain about... such a torrent of ill-will the daily dose of politics in other places? Anyhow, President Barack Obama really is a good political leaders. He has integrity, honesty, moral values, vision, is very hard working and on the side of the people -- not much more to ask hope for, really. Although the fact that he's proven himself already successful in many ways is good too. (Although the constant rainstrom of slander might blind us a bit to that, here). This is a Totally New Experience for me, that's 4sure. The Pres gets a gold medal in Cairo and I'm glad. He's cheered on the streets of Paris (and Broadway, etc.) and I'm glad. Veterans at Normandy applaud him and I'm glad. It's a triumph 4 us all. Viva hum
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POPSMen of the 101st Airborne Division Make the Jump of their Lives On May 27, 1944, the paratroopers of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne waited at the railway station in Hungerford, England, for the trains that would take them to their D-Day marshaling area. The weather was unusually hot for May, and the men sweated as they waited in their steel helmets and jumpsuits. “Everyone was trying to figure out exactly where we were going,” remembers Amos “Buck” Taylor, a sergeant in the 506th at the time. “We knew it was probably going to be Normandy, but exactly where nobody knew.” Though the location of the invasion had not yet been revealed, the men had some idea of what Gen. Bill Lee, former commander of the 101st, had called “the responsibility ahead of us.” The past nine months had been a blur of grueling training exercises that had tested the mettle even of these men, elite volunteers trained to jump directly into the turbulence of combat. Their training had culminated in Exercise Tiger . . .
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POPS D-Day, June 6th ~ Sixty-Five Years Ago Rod Stewart Helps D-Day Veterans Despite years of rumors that he is very...ugh...frugal, and despite the fact that his own son called him "very cheap," rocker Rod Stewart has offered up £7,500 (a little over $11,000 USA dollars) to send veterans to the 65th commemoration of D-Day in France. The Daily Mail: Rod Stewart led a roll call of politicians, celebrities and generous members of the public backing the Daily Mail's campaign to send the D-Day veterans to Normandy. The 64-year-old singer said he was 'outraged' the Government had no plans to send an official delegation and offered £7,500 to send 15 Essex veterans to France in June. He said: 'These men sacrificed everything and we owe them this. My only condition is I'd like to meet them and talk to them as I'd be fascinated to hear about how they landed on their beaches.' Stewart's grandfather was decorated in the First World War, and his father and two brothers also served.
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POPSD-Day +65 Sixty Five years ago the world held its breath as over 130000 soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy France.
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POPSLIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOS: D-Day and Operation Overlord The Face of the Liberator Photo #4 U.S. Army Lt. Kelso C. Horne of the Airborne Infantry poses in Normandy, France , on Aug. 14, 1944. "Most people only think of D-Day on the big anniversaries, like the 40th or 50th," Horne said at age 81. "It comes to my mind every June 6th and on a lot of other days, too." Horne died in 2000 at the age of 88. Photo: Bob Landry. Aug 14, 1944
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POPSLIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOS: WWII: D-Day and Operation Overlord Ike and Monty Review the Troops Before D-Day Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of Allied Forces in Europe, reviews troops shortly before the June 6, 1944 Normandy invasion, while British Gen. Bernard Montgomery looks on. The invasion of Northwest Europe by the Allies, code-named Operation Overlord, saw more than 2 million troops land on French soil between D-Day and late August; hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides, and tens of thousands of deaths; and constituted one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. Photo: Frank Scherschel./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images May 01, 1944
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POPSD-Day veteran not going back to the beaches First the Vets were being subsidised by the Heroes Return Charity, costs to cover a carer and one immediate family relative. Then a Blackpool Councillor Julian Mineur – sorry folk I ain’t making this up - gets involved and it all turns to doggee poo. The last time I saw Councillor Manure in action was in Rhyl where he was insulting a rather eloquent, distinguished former Women’s Army veteran who promised if that if he called her girlie once more she would smack his face. She was prevented from assaulting him by a former Royal Marine who was only too willing to do the lady’s bidding. The Councillor was trying to sell the Veterans Badge to the veteran and was getting a hostile reception along with the Labour MP for North Wales. It is amazing how these political types do not understand community or service unless it is wrapped in a wonder financial package for themselves. Expenses! Don’t mention expenses! Not only will some of the vets not be going, but Association heads with no affil
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