Bora-Hansgrohe rider continues impressive season
Pascal Ackermann of Bora-Hansgrohe continued his successful season by winning the bunch sprint in the German national road race
He topped the country's better-known sprinters
with John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) second and Max Walscheid (Sunweb) third
with Marcel Kittel still struggling for his form in 10th
Bora-Hansgrohe's goal was to keep the title within the team
"[2017 champion] Marcus Burghardt said he would love to hand over the jersey to me," the 24-year-old Ackermann said after the race
"But it still feels a little surreal now wearing it
"We knew that it was key to go into the last corner already in front
My team did a great job to deliver me in a perfect position
I still had Rudi (Selig) in front of me coming on to the home straight
basically I just had to roll over the line then."
The German field took off for 19 laps of a 12km totally flat circuit in and around Einhausen on a hot and sunny day
The race was marked by a series of breakaways
with Bora-hansgrohe and Katusha-Alpecin keeping a sharp eye on the happenings
Rick Zabel tried to set things up for Kittel
claiming he was hindered by Selig and Ackermann
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Appleton - The photos adorned the mantle of the Green Bay home for decades but rarely were the names of the handsome men in the pictures mentioned
Earl Des Jardins was killed in September 1944 when the B-24 he was piloting crashed in France
James Des Jardins was killed two months later when his P-51 Mustang was shot down in Germany
John Des Jardins grew up wondering about his father's only siblings
He wanted to know more about them and he hoped to learn some day exactly what happened to them in the skies over Europe
His Uncle Earl's bomber was found a couple of decades ago and he and his father
traveled to France for dedication of a memorial at the crash site
His Uncle James' P-51 Mustang had been discovered during dredging in a field near Einhausen
German officials found James Des Jardins' remains and contacted his family in Wisconsin
"I didn't tear up but I got goose bumps all over
I had to get ahold of my dad - he was excited
'We need to get him back home with proper honors,' " said Des Jardins
military recovered the remains and DNA samples were provided by John Des Jardins and his father
Des Jardins is not sure when his uncle's remains will be released by the U.S
but he plans to escort them home to Wisconsin for a military burial with full honors
is also hoping some day to go to Einhausen
"and see the site and see the last thing my uncle saw before he was killed
It's one thing left on my bucket list."
He learned that his uncle died on a bombing and strafing run of a railroad station in southwestern Germany
will not see the memorial service for his brother James
He was buried at Fort Howard Cemetery in Green Bay next to his parents
"He was extremely proud of his brothers and was looking forward to seeing his remains brought back with honors," Des Jardins said
Partial remains of James were discovered and returned to Wisconsin for burial in 1947
Earl's remains were buried in a mass grave with the rest of his 10-member B-24 crew in Kentucky
After the Mustang wreckage was found in Germany
who has been a circuit court judge in Outagamie County since 1994
contacted EAA officials to see if they were interested in displaying the engine of his uncle's P-51 at the aviation museum in Oshkosh
They were and now he's hoping to arrange for the engine to be shipped to Wisconsin
Even though his grandparents rarely spoke about their sons
Des Jardins went to reunions of his uncle's military units to learn more
He dug through archives to find their military records
After his grandparents moved from their Green Bay home
Des Jardins found a box in the attic containing letters
the two telegrams that delivered the devastating news
flashlight and other memorabilia in a display box
One item he treasures is a letter sent from Earl to James in July 1944 in which the older brother mentions taking part in the raid on the Nazi oil refineries in Ploesti
Earl starts out his letter to James with these words: Combat is rough and don't let anyone tell you different
If I were you I won't be in any great hurry to get over here
Des Jardins made two large displays - one for each uncle - with photos
which he hung in his Branch 7 courtroom in the Outagamie Courthouse
jurors and lawyers often ask him about the men in the memorial displays
After he learned that his uncle's P-51 had been discovered in Germany
service members remain unaccounted for from World War II as well as other wars
who helped Des Jardins with advice and contacts after his uncle's remains were found
but in reality we leave tens of thousands behind," said Ranfranz
who has spent decades searching for his maternal uncle's plane near the Pacific island of Yap
"No one really did a scorecard of the missing
They tried hard at the end of the war but then along came Korea and then Vietnam."
it's likely James Des Jardins would have become a dentist and married his sweetheart
whose father did not have to serve in the military because he was family's sole surviving child
"The sad part of it was we could never talk about it because it brought such bad reactions from my grandparents
which was sad to me because I wanted to know more," he said
It usually leads to a loss of sense of danger
“He stabs passers-by and is killed with eight bullets in Rimini: he had a Koran in his pocket.”
Now this multicultural self-destruction is no longer confined to the big cities
And despite the Orwellian media-government silence
everyone who wants to know the truth knows it
That the critical mass has long been exceeded
Illerkirchberg… Names that tell us little or nothing
they are small and large cities all united by the same scenes
A man from Syria enters a park stabbing children
An asylum seeker who pretended to be a Christian
The attacker in Annecy was actually in ISIS
before asking for and obtaining asylum in Europe
A group of boys from the “difficult neighborhoods” (read immigrants) of a nearby city attack the town festival
randomly hitting anyone who came within range with knives and axes
“We are here to stab white people,” shouted the attackers who
three children are stabbed at the Catholic school of Cólaiste Mhuire by an Algerian
A young “Welsh” named Axel Rudakubana stabs to death three girls (Alice Dasilva Aguiar
speak of “a scene from a horror film” with screams and “several children bleeding on the street”
It will later be discovered that Axel had an al Qaeda manual in his house
One of the girls killed was stabbed 122 times
In the morning you take your two-year-old son to kindergarten and then you have to pick him up from the morgue because an Afghan killed him while he was playing in the park
called the “Bavarian Nice” for its mild climate
A 41-year-old man and a two-year-old boy died
The man followed a group of children from a kindergarten
a group of five children accompanied by their teachers for a walk
the Bavarian “asylum seeker” deliberately targeted a group of very young children
He didn’t just inflict enough stab wounds to kill; he stabbed each target dozens and dozens of times
The same kind of people who took a baby hostage in Israel
Why would someone stab a two-year-old to death
Why would someone throw an elderly Jewish woman off a balcony while shouting “Allahu Akbar”
Why drive a car through a Christmas market
The arrested man is called Enamullah and he lives in an asylum center
Welcome to “Germany’s happiest city.” Blame it on ’AfD
and of course Trump and Musk with their dangerous freedom of speech
Who is now organizing the demonstration for a “cosmopolitan Aschaffenburg”
the collective journalist will now appear on TV to say that their thoughts day and night and during the lunch break are with the relatives of the dead and injured and they will all be called to “stand together against hatred”
Each attack is followed by the same empty phrase: “We will not let ourselves be divided,” Chancellor Scholz had assured after an Afghan fanatic in Mannheim tried to kill a critic of Islam and murdered a police officer
It is all too familiar to hear the hum of boring platitudes with which the political and media classes deliberately mock the population
A trail of blood runs through Europe’s cities
Murdered simply because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time
two thousand inhabitants who certainly did not ask to end up on the geographical map of the clash of civilizations
a Palestinian Arab stabs two sixteen-year-old girls to death
A Syrian stabs several people on a train between Regensburg and Nuremberg
a Palestinian Arab stabs passengers on a train
a Somali Muslim kills three people with a kitchen knife in a store
a Syrian with a Palestinian Arab flag goes around terrorizing the city with a machete
a group of young immigrants beat to death Philippos Tsanis
who was returning with two other friends from his sister’s graduation party
His only sin was wearing a rosary with a cross on his chest and being in the wrong place
Why not a radical change in European migration policy instead
Because the reality is this: a society where the will to protect oneself does not become dominant even when children are massacred by immigrants is at the end of the line
it is just a naive pile of rubble full of politically correct idiots who no longer have the instinct for self-preservation
If we limit ourselves to cordoning off parks and schools after the stabbings
to depositing teddy bears and lighting candles
to organizing picnics of “grandmothers against the right”
the multicultural blanket will always be too short
train or school to end up in the news for 24 hours in this strange unprecedented nihilism
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The fattest pumpkin at this year's European Championships literally weighs tons
But it won't be cut up after the competition
Belgian pumpkin grower Mario van Geel came out on top at the European pumpkin weighing championships in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart with a massive specimen weighing several tons
he relegated the German champion Matthias Würsching from Einhausen in Hesse (997.5 kilograms) to second place
Third-placed David Frommelt also comes from Germany (949.5 kilograms)
The Belgian van Geel had already won the European title in 2019
Luca Stöckl from Bavaria was successful last year
Europe's largest pumpkins are weighed every year at the show weighing at the pumpkin exhibition at the Blühenden Barock Ludwigsburg
the giant pumpkins are carved together with numerous other specimens at the slaughter festival at the end of the exhibition
while others are styled into oversized works of art at the carving festival on October 20
this does not apply to the new European champion pumpkin from Belgium: it will be on display up to and including Thursday
but will then be taken back to Belgium to take part in another competition