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worthwhile idea to look around see what’s what.” “Okay boys,” Margaret as she stood up from the couch she was sitting in, “I’ll ask Harold and see if he’s in on it. From there, I’m going to find some Adelburgers who are interested in coming with us to Omaha by teleportation. Since it’s a Friday, and everyone’s bored and wants to do something over the weekend, surely there’s going to be someone who is interested in coming along for a stroll.” Heading to the door, her hand on doorknob, before she…

It all started a couple months ago in the middle of the country, at a small community college, I heard from my coach that I just met, “Give it all right now because you never know when you caught your last ball, threw your last ball, or hit your last ball.” This quote gave me thought and I figured that he was right, like what if I get into a car crash and the aftermath of the accident meant that I lose my legs, my arms, or I even die. That’s when I reflected on the idea that I should make the…

Standing in a boat filled with puke from his fellow soldiers, and himself, they waited for the door to drop and to storm the beach known as Omaha Beach. The door dropped, and almost instantly, all the soldiers did too. Not many men were even able to make it off of the boat alive, but he did. He and what was left of his troop from the boat, made their way up Omaha Beach alongside multiple other boats filled with ally troops. “You think you have had an ugly view before? You should have seen what…

the Brandenberg-Bergstein Ridge. Consequently, the German artillery was able to cause high casualties on attacking units throughout the battle. As a result, the 28th ID attack failed and encountered heavy causalities. Third, unlike his presence at Omaha Beach with his subordinates, Cota remained at the division command post, where he was disconnected of what was going on the front line. Such thing prevented him to visualize the problem, make the assessment, and then make the right decision.…

In the eyes of many, war is cruel, aggressive, and ugly. The true definition of this word is, “A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.” (“The American Heritage”). War brings disagreements and hardships for not only the soldiers, but also amongst the families on the home-front. Luckily, times are a little better now than they were in the twentieth century. On December 7, 1941 the attack on Pearl Harbor started what is known as World War…

Illinois were they raised their six children. My mother went to Drake University were she majored in Actuarial Science and right after graduation got a job the Mutual of Omaha. She meet my father, Gus, at a Catholic Church event and they hit it off right away. They got married had five children and have lived in the same yellow house in Omaha for thirty-three…

The book by Stephen E. Ambrose ‘D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II’ is about the planning and execution of D-Day mostly told in the viewpoint and words of soldiers who were there to witness it all. The book starts in the beginning of 1944 and ends on D-Day. Eisenhower the commander of the allies, and Rommel the commander for the Germans had much in common, but the major difference was Eisenhower could command anyway he wanted to. Rommel however had to get permission from…

in customer relationship management software. They work to help different businesses manage and automate their marketing sales, service, and inventory functions. Tigerpaw Software, Inc. has a single site, located in the sub-district of Bellevue in Omaha, Nebraska at 2201 Thurston Circle #7 with a total of 40,000 users internationally. Dave Foxall is the original sole founder of the company and has been there since the beginning of its’ conception. Dave is still the CEO of the company and…

the largest amphibious attack in history, with over 156,000 American, British and Canadian troops landing simultaneously along a 50 mile stretch of 5 beaches in Normandy. The battle, codenamed Operation Overlord, spread across the beaches of Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, and utilised the latest technology available at the time. Stemming from Newton’s Principia, tide prediction machines were a crucial addition to the D-Day landings. Naval forces were dependent on calm seas to operate…

I'm a fan of the zoo, i always have been i love watching the animals, but the kansas city zoo was a school field trip we took 50 trillion times a month and had lost its luster, the Omaha zoo , was much better. Larger habitats wider range of animals, movie theatre. Like if you combined Union station with a zoo. I was very excited at the time this being the only time i'd ever left Missouri, the purpose of the trip the actual activity…