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రేపు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీ.. రాజీనామా యోచనలో రాహుల్
దిల్లీలో కాంగ్రెస్ వర్కింగ్ కమిటీ (సీడబ్ల్యూసీ) శనివారం సమావేశం కానుంది. లోక్సభ ఎన్నికల్లో ఘోర పరాభవానికి గల కారణాలపై కాంగ్రెస్ అగ్రనేతలు చర్చించనున్నారు. పార్టీ అధ్యక్ష పదవికి రాజీనామా చేస్తాననే ప్రతిపాదనను రాహుల్ గాంధీ ఈ సమావేశంలో నేతల ముందు ఉంచనున్నట్టు తెలుస్తోంది.
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Published : May 24, 2019, 1:26 PM IST
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రేపు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ సమావేశం
రేపు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీ.. రాజీనామా యోచనలో రాహుల్ సార్వత్రిక ఎన్నికల్లో కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ ఊహించని రీతిలో ఘోర పరాభవం చవిచూసింది. ఈ నేపథ్యంలో రేపు (శనివారం) దిల్లీలో కాంగ్రెస్ వర్కింగ్ కమిటీ (సీడబ్ల్యూసీ) సమావేశం కానుంది. ఎన్నికల్లో పార్టీ ఓటమిపై కాంగ్రెస్ అధిష్ఠానం చర్చించనుంది.
ఇదే సమావేశంలో పార్టీ అధ్యక్ష పదవికి రాహుల్ గాంధీ రాజీనామా చేసే యోచనలో ఉన్నట్లు పార్టీ వర్గాల సమాచారం.
ఎన్నికల్లో ఓటమికి గల కారణాలు, వాటిని ఏవిధంగా అధిగమించి పార్టీని ముందుకు నడిపించాలనే అంశంపై సీనియర్ నేతలు చర్చించనున్నారు. భాజపా నేతృత్వంలోని ఎన్డీఏ కూటమి చేతిలో వరుసగా రెండోసారి ఓటమి పాలైంది కాంగ్రెస్. ఈ ఎన్నికల్లో కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ 52 సీట్లకే పరిమితమైంది.
యూపీఏ ఛైర్పర్సన్ సోనియాగాంధీ, మాజీ ప్రధాని మన్మోహన్ సింగ్తో పాటు పార్టీ ముఖ్య నేతలు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీకి హాజరుకానున్నారు.
ఇదీ చూడండి: భారత్ తీర్పు: పనిచేయని ప్రియాంక మ్యాజిక్
రేపు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీ.. రాజీనామా యోచనలో రాహుల్ సార్వత్రిక ఎన్నికల్లో కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ ఊహించని రీతిలో ఘోర పరాభవం చవిచూసింది. ఈ నేపథ్యంలో రేపు (శనివారం) దిల్లీలో కాంగ్రెస్ వర్కింగ్ కమిటీ (సీడబ్ల్యూసీ) సమావేశం కానుంది. ఎన్నికల్లో పార్టీ ఓటమిపై కాంగ్రెస్ అధిష్ఠానం చర్చించనుంది.
ఇదే సమావేశంలో పార్టీ అధ్యక్ష పదవికి రాహుల్ గాంధీ రాజీనామా చేసే యోచనలో ఉన్నట్లు పార్టీ వర్గాల సమాచారం.
ఎన్నికల్లో ఓటమికి గల కారణాలు, వాటిని ఏవిధంగా అధిగమించి పార్టీని ముందుకు నడిపించాలనే అంశంపై సీనియర్ నేతలు చర్చించనున్నారు. భాజపా నేతృత్వంలోని ఎన్డీఏ కూటమి చేతిలో వరుసగా రెండోసారి ఓటమి పాలైంది కాంగ్రెస్. ఈ ఎన్నికల్లో కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ 52 సీట్లకే పరిమితమైంది.
యూపీఏ ఛైర్పర్సన్ సోనియాగాంధీ, మాజీ ప్రధాని మన్మోహన్ సింగ్తో పాటు పార్టీ ముఖ్య నేతలు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీకి హాజరుకానున్నారు.
ఇదీ చూడండి: భారత్ తీర్పు: పనిచేయని ప్రియాంక మ్యాజిక్
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART COURTESY RICHARD DEVITA
SHOTLIST:
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Bridgewater, New Jersey, US - 10 May 2019
1. Various of D-Day Veteran Frank DeVita at his home, looking through photos
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank DeVita, D-Day Veteran:
"On the boat, I got dead and I got wounded and I got live soldiers and they're crying 'momma, momma, momma'. You know everybody thinks you cry to God. When you're dying, you cry momma."
3. DeVita holding a picture of himself as a young man
4. DeVita at his house
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank DeVita, D-Day Veteran:
"One guy was maybe two or three feet away from me. He got hit in the stomach with a machine gun, ripped the stomach right open. Somehow this kid lived, I don't know how. He lived there all day. The other kid that was close to me, he was probably maybe a foot away from me. He was not so lucky. Machine gun took his helmet and half of his face off and he was crying help me, help me, help me. I couldn't help him because I could even help myself. I had nothing. I had no morphine and nothing that helped this kid. So I didn't know what to do. So I remember when my grandmother died they said a prayer over her. So I started praying: 'Our Father who art in heaven...' and it seemed to calm him a few seconds. Then he fell flat and he was at my feet, right there on my feet. I know he's going to die, half of his head was gone. He had red hair and his hair was all full of blood and I don't know what possessed me, I reached down and I touched his hand. Because I wanted him to know he wasn't alone. He squeeze my hand as if to say it's all right and he died and he died. He was just a little boy, just a little boy and he was dead."
6. Various of DeVita talking about his military medals
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank DeVita, D-Day Veteran:
"The whole beach was covered with bodies. Dead and wounded, crying. Some alive, some scared, they didn't want to move. It was a blood bath."
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ARCHIVE: Near Normandy, France - 6 June 1944
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8. Various of boats from D-Day invasion
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Bridgewater, New Jersey, US - 10 May 2019
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank DeVita, D-Day Veteran:
"I'm saying to myself: What the hell just happened here? Why am I alive? Why do I have my arms and legs and these guys are all dead around me?"
RICHARD DEVITA - COURTESY RICHARD DEVITA
ARCHIVE: Colleville-Sur-Mer, France - Date unknown
10. STILL of DeVita in cemetery
RICHARD DEVITA - COURTESY RICHARD DEVITA
ARCHIVE: Normandy, France - Date unknown
11. STILL of DeVita with two women at a D-Day event
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Bridgewater, New Jersey, US - 10 May 2019
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank DeVita, D-Day Veteran:
"I want to come back because every time I come back I bring somebody, that's never been there before and I see through their eyes. There's a cemetery in Colleville, which is overlooking Omaha Beach and then this cemetery are 94-hundred dead bodies, marble, white marble tombstone. I want you to walk with me in that cemetery. Pick out a tombstone, any tombstone, place your hand and our white marble and say to yourself 'six feet down, there is a boy, probably 20 years old, 19, 20 years old. He gave his life for his country'. And then you lift your eyes up and you see 94-hundred white marble tombstones, they all gave their lives for their country."
RICHARD DEVITA - COURTESY RICHARD DEVITA
ARCHIVE: Colleville-Sur-Mer, France - Date unknown
13. STILL of Devita with his hand on grave
STORYLINE:
Frank DeVita still has nightmare's of the "bloodbath" that was the D-Day invasion.
He had wanted to join the Air Force but had no peripheral vision. He wanted to join the Navy but it would take weeks to start basic training. That's how he ended up in the Coast Guard on D-Day, ferrying troops to Omaha Beach.
His job was to lower the ramp when the craft got to shore and then raise it after the troops clamored out.
But in the early morning hours, as machine gun fire rained down on the boat, that ramp served as DeVita's shield, protecting him and the other men inside.
The coxswain screamed at him to lower the ramp, and in the roar of the cannons and the craft's diesel engines, DeVita couldn't hear him. The coxswain screamed again.
"On the boat, I got dead and I got wounded and I got live soldiers and they're crying 'momma, momma, momma'. You know everybody thinks you cry to God. When you're dying, you cry momma," DeVita, 94, speaking from his home in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
When he finally dropped the ramp, he said 14 or 15 troops were immediately raked by machine gun fire.
One soldier fell at his feet, his red hair full of blood: "I reached down and I touched his hand, because I wanted him to know he wasn't alone."
Then, when he tried to lift the ramp, it was stuck. DeVita had to crawl over dead bodies lining the bottom of the landing craft to fix it.
Again and again, the landing craft ferried men to the beach. When there were no more men to ferry, DeVita and the other sailors pulled bodies from the choppy seas.
For decades — until recently — he never spoke of these things.
This June he'll make his 12th trip back to Normandy. Eager to keep the memory of what happened there alive, he has often brought others along to places like the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer .
"Pick out a tombstone, any tombstone. Place your hand on that white marble and say to yourself, 'Six feet down there is a boy.' .... He gave his life for his country and then you lift your eyes up and you see 9,400 white marble tombstones," he said. "They all gave their lives for their country."
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