You can’t say the word “crusade” anymore. It’s offensive to Muslims, donchaknow!
Ah, back in the days when our country had real men presidents.
With real brains, leadership, and most importantly, cojones.
If you get the chance, the D-Day Museum in New Orleans is a stirring visit. It has thousands of artifacts from the invasion, including a copy of this letter (if not the original) and Eisenhower’s speeches for after the operation. He actually prepared two: one for a successful landing, one for if it was repulsed. In the former, he gave credit to the GIs who bore the burden. In the latter he took full responsibility for the failure.
Very moving.
I had blogged about D-Day, linking to his speech -
and FDR’s prayer on D-Day
http://smithsk.blogspot.com/2012/06/pray4america-part-2-fdrs-prayer-on-d.html
We so need this resolve to fight an enemy that is more covert.
In studying the histories of the D-Day invasion, we would have to give the edge of superior weapons to the Germans. In tanks, machine guns, artillery they had a decisive edge.
Thank God we had air superiority, but the errors committed on that day, almost doomed the invasion. It was the courage, tenacity, and resourcefulness of the American soldier which saved the day. The sacrifices made on June 6th 1944 will forever give glory to the annals freedom. May God continue to bless the legacy of those men.