Posted on 06/06/2016 10:20:34 AM PDT by JewishRighter
To my thinking, the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944 was the greatest day in American history. Of course, the grand scale of American industrial and military might and organizational genius on display that day are worthy of tremendous admiration. But more importantly by far was the greatness of the quintessential American character that prevailed: bravery, sacrifice, heroism, nobility of spirit, love of freedom and hatred of evil. And nowhere was this character better revealed than Omaha beach. Bloody Omaha. If the mention of that place does not arouse a mixture of somber reflection and profound admiration in your heart, you either don't know the facts or you are morally deranged. As I have been told that the landing scene in Saving Private Ryan is the most realistic depiction of that event, it would be well for every patriotic American to watch it and to internalize what it meant for those young men to watch the ramp fall on the landing craft and stare straight into the face of death. And yet, they still went forward!
A footnote to this great day in American history: For me, the son of a concentration camp prisoner who was liberated from a Nazi Death March by American troops 10 months later, this is my personal Memorial Day. If not for those great American heroes, my father most probably would have been murdered like the rest of his family.
Ordinary men became extraordinary heroes in an instant. God Bless them, and their sacrifices, to a man.
When we know, first hand what these men endured, there is no question, that Truman did the right thing, dropping the bomb.
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