<![CDATA[D-Day Memorial Speech by Charles Durning]]>You might recognize him as an actor from movies like O Brother Where Art Thou, I didn't know he stormed the beaches on D-Day. A movie speech (and good music) from 2004:

Link to video

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/39709/d-day-memorial-speech-by-charles-durningRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 07:41:30 GMTWed, 10 Jun 2026 12:55:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to D-Day Memorial Speech by Charles Durning on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:34:53 GMT]]>Holy s**t 😪
I recognised him immediately from the best ever NCIS episode, where he plays an aging Medal of Honor recipient called Ernie Yost, tortured by his war memories of Iwo Jima.
Who knew he was actually on the French beaches!

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363840https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363840Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:34:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to D-Day Memorial Speech by Charles Durning on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:13:45 GMT]]>I didn’t know much about him. He was one of 11 kids born to an Irish catholic family, 5 of whom died as babies from scarlet fever or smallpox. His dad died when he was a kid and his mom supported the family as a laundress at West Point.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363827https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363827Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:13:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to D-Day Memorial Speech by Charles Durning on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:04 GMT]]>Yeah, reminded me of The King's Speech

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363826https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363826Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to D-Day Memorial Speech by Charles Durning on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:02:40 GMT]]>Wow.

The allegretto from Beethoven’s seventh is a nice choice.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363825https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/363825Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:02:40 GMT