“The Boys Who Saved the World for the Rest of Us”
And then their kids and grandkids threw it all away.
Imagine the assault on Omaha Beach today with women and openly gay troops as well as political correctness commissars. Thankfully there are still many brave young Americans who would follow the example of their grandfathers in storming the beaches.
Good Post Kas. As one writer put it ‘where do we get men like this ?’......GOD bless America.....(hint: He has)
Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died....
These principles apply now more than ever to the current assault on our liberties by the “Enemy within”...
In 1978, I went to France as an exchange student. The first week I was there, we had an orientation. As part of the orientation, we went up to a bird preserve in Normandy. For lunch, our teachers gave us bread and butter and let us scatter over the beach.
I was in a small group of teens who decided to climb up on top of a bunker. Sitting there on the bunker, overlooking the waves washing up on the beach, we talked about how delicious the bread and butter was—the fresh bread made without preservatives, the sweet creamy butter. We all agreed that it was the best bread and butter, so much better than anything we had ever tasted in America.
I remember that day so well, because our conversation was so mundane when contrasted with the events that had occurred at that exact place less than half a century before.
The memories of WWII were still vivid in France at the time I was an exchange student there. I was even the target of gratitude for what the American soldiers had done there... which made me feel really awkward, since I had not been born yet when all that happened.