Posted on 06/06/2024 4:11:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On this the eighty-year anniversary of the D-Day landings, I am haunted by what this nation has become.
On this day eighty-years ago, in the largest combined naval, air, and land operation in history, 154,000 Allied troops, including 71,000 American soldiers, landed on the beaches and in the marshlands of Normandy. Within the first twenty-four hours, American forces suffered 3,393 killed or missing and 6,603 wounded.
Thus began the liberation of continental Europe in a war that the United States had thrust upon it by the feckless efforts of others at appeasement and compromise with those who for years made clear their intentions and determination to conquer and impose their will on others.
In winning the war, this nation freed millions from tyranny and certain death, established democratic governments in the lands of their former enemies, rebuilt entire countries, and above all showed the world the true power of liberty and freedom.
I am among those freed from this tyranny and, thanks to the benevolence of the American people, brought to the United States as a displaced war orphan. In 1997, I fulfilled a lifelong goal of walking along Omaha Beach and visiting the Normandy American Cemetery. Little did I realize that it would turn out to be one of the most emotional days of my life.
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If I were to return to Normandy, how could I tell those young men that the totalitarian mindset they fought and died to defeat now dominates virtually all of America’s institutions? How could I relate to them that the nation’s ruling class is accelerating the transformation of the nation into a one-party Marxist/socialist oligarchy by allowing untold millions of illegal aliens, including criminals, terrorists, and potential saboteurs, unfettered admittance and access to virtually all the rights of American citizenship?
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I think the WWII soldiers would think the same of our democRAT marxists as the ones they fought.
Been watching the ceremony this morning. So moved by those men rising from their wheelchairs to accept their medal. Truly men of honor.
If I were to return to Normandy, how could I tell those young men that the totalitarian mindset they fought and died to defeat now dominates virtually all of America’s institutions?”
Those that fought and won WWII as well as surviving the Great Depression are in deed the Greatest Generation.
I believe they did not want their life’s experiences to be passed on to their children and thus wanted their lives to be better.
As a result they were soft on their kids and our culture and allowed the cultural changes of the sixties. They allowed the hippies to do what hippies did and now they are our leaders destroying America. They allowed Roe vs Wade to happen which enabled America to be an abortion culture.
Many of the changes towards progressiveness happened when they were at the helm.
It’s not their fault alone. Each successive generation after these folks followed suit until our kids today are so spoiled and void of the real world it’s pathetic. Communism is now on our door step and we are all to blame, beginning with that Greatest Generation.
As a kid I recall my dad talking to a neighbor who said he was going to keep his kids in college until the Vietnam war was over, and he did. He was a WWII vet. A classmate was kept in college so long that he was so over educated that same institution then hired him as a professor.
“The Longest Day” is one of the greatest war movies ever made. Highly recommended for those who have not yet seen it.
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Normandy American Cemetery (9,388 buried)
https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Normandy_Brochure_Mar2018.pdf
Thus the West promoted "anti-hate speech" laws and ended immigration restrictions, because otherwise Hitler will have won.
All these migrants, all these "anti-hate speech" laws, are the West's way of continuing to fight Hitler long after he's dead.
And the day before, the Allies in the south liberate Rome with a large invasion force. Within a few days we repeated the enormity of the DDay invasion with the invasion of Saipan…on the other side of the world.
These few weeks represented “peak logistics” for the US.
Now we cheer when Boeing gets a space capsule up into space after 7 attempts.
I imagine that communication to coordinate the logistics must have been a nightmare.
Yes, except for the cringey acting by Eddie Albert when his character gets shot.
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