Posted on 06/06/2024 4:56:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is hard to believe that eighty years have passed since American, British, and Canadian troops landed at Normandy and fought their way across fortified beaches covered in German mines and barbed wire fences. What a nightmare it must have been to overcome such soggy, uneven terrain while enduring heavy fire from gun emplacements secured upon hills and steep cliffs. It must have felt like being dropped off in Hell and navigating through a gruesome Jell-O of blood, sand, smoke, explosions, and whirring bullets. There were no timeouts. There were no “safe spaces.” There was nowhere to hide. You either advanced or died.
Could Allied Forces accomplish such audacious feats today? It is hard to imagine the “Me-Me-Me Generations” putting their lives on the line for much of anything. Could you convince a socialist who believes that everything should be free that freedom is never free? Could you explain to a Millennial that storming a beach is not done for Instagram snapshots, social media approval, or Facebook likes? Could you persuade all those Westerners who hate Western civilization to pick up a rifle and fight for the West’s survival? I’m not so sure.
Don’t get me wrong; there are still plenty of patriots among us. America’s armed services remain home to the kind of self-sacrificing heroes who would have parachuted behind enemy lines or fought tooth-and-nail to establish beachheads eight decades ago. But the Pentagon has also watered down physical fitness standards, promoted “politically correct” Marxists into crucial command positions, and poisoned the rank and file with “woke” indoctrination.
The military is no longer a machine dedicated to advancing on the battlefield and killing the enemy; it is a labyrinthine bureaucracy dedicated to advancing officers’ political careers and sympathizing with the enemy. Only two decades after the 9/11 Islamic terror...
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Marxism. I remember when we fought against it.
BTTT
And we have a vegetable representing the USA at the 80th observance.
I missed visiting the sites in the early 60’s. I did get to see parts of east Berlin though. At that time there was still tons of WW II damage there. A very dismal experience. I knew in an instant I didn’t ever want to ‘live’ like that. Some folks have ZERO clue just how good they have it.
It is nice to have actual memories of those men. During the 1960s and 70s, school teachers, principles, coaches, Church members. They never said a word about the horrors they experienced. The lucky ones came back, went to school and then started work.
In addition every other garage sale you went to had a helmet, packs or patches from WWII.
They were not Freedom Fighters..just Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen as many were drafted and forced into the Services during the war...many had wished they had been somewhere else.
My father and all my uncles volunteered. Personally, I don’t know anyone who was ‘drafted’
I remember only vaguely as a very young person hearing the talk about “D-Day”. I didn’t really know much about it at the time, but I know now. What a horrible experience for a man to have gone through! All of us need to need to realize & be very thankful for what our forefathers endured so that we might have what we have today.
Well I knew several that were drafted as 10 million were drafted.
“To all of our friends and partners: Our cherished alliance was forged in the heat of battle, tested in the trials of war, and proven in the blessings of peace. Our bond is unbreakable.” - President Trump, June 4, 2019
Not to mention 90% black, and 75% female (assuming you still believe in male/female to begin with).
All of my relatives were in the Pacific Theater and I feel like they do not get the recognition they deserve. The Japanese were Crazy maniacs during the war and would fight to the death to inflict as many casualties as possible. Many Germans especially later in the war were ready to surrender to the western allies because they knew they would be treated well. The Germans fighting on the eastern front not so much.
My mom was an army nurse. Some of the things the nurses in the Pacific campaign suffered were horrific
My dad was a surgeon in the Pacigic. He was injured by Japanese shrapnel and spent most of the war at twenty nine palms
Precisely
Amen and amen
You are correct
The Pacific is where my folks served
The Pacific campaign was brutal compared to European campaign.
My dad was wounded at Guadalcanal. Spent most of the war recovering at twenty nine palms
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