D-Day OD: Why World War II nostalgia has gone too far (Centtople barf alert!)

MSNBC ^ | 6/4/04 | David Greenberg

[qam1]

This year's onslaught of D-Day hype—a continuous barrage of World War II nostalgia stretching from Memorial Day weekend through George Bush's trip to Europe these next few days—has already exhausted all but the most diehard buffs. Newsmagazines splash gritty old photos of GIs from the Good War and marked-up invasion maps across their glossy pages. Historians from Martin Gilbertto Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have published books exalting soldierly valor. In various speeches George Bush links the siege of Normandy to the siege of Baghdad in what he portrays as one seamless American mission. Building on the mythmaking efforts of past presidents, and with the ready help of the media, Bush has spun a simple tale of American bravery in defense of democracy—of a golden moment when ordinary Yankee sons began the liberation of foreign peoples solely because they believed in freedom.

[Dawgreg]

I don't think I'll click for full column. I've seen enough. Sad thing is, there are so many people like that jack-ass who aren't worth reading or even listening to. Losers!

[Dawgreg]

AMEN!!!

[MEG33]

Try looking for Ukrainian Society in the phone book or on google..Type in Ukrainian famine,or Year of Horror ,Latvia,for some info on the glories of communism...

[Calpernia]

You are right. I did do that first. I encountered the 'puppet master' for my geographic area on all these services concerning the Ukraine.

Then I was naive and thought I solved all my problems for raising money for that region affected by the chernobyl.

I've since learned that profit is more important. And I hope there is an extra hot place in hell for those that use the CLOTH, Children and Women to make money to line their pockets.

[MEG33]

Walter Duranty's Pulitzer NYT,was gone after with a vengeance for stories denying the extreme starvation going on in the Ukraine (written in the early thirties,exposed as lies and making a big stink this past year)..

I googled ....Stalin's crimes.. many articles,forums..and right there was a history channel chat room decrying our lack of knowledge about Stalin's infliction of so much pain(to start the great leap to industry and communes). Just play with google..I despise Stalin and communism.

[Calpernia]

Now for some unknown reason, I've never done exactly what you have just posted.

You are right...But...Maybe a site needs to be created with that intention in mind.

All of that information is out there...maybe a centraliztion point needs to be made.

Your idea is valid. I will think about it tonight.

[spodefly]

I sent him a nice friendly email congratulating him on his recent submission to MSNBC.

[Coleus]

No mention of the 130 million killed? and the millions tortured and sent to the gulags in Siberia? It's sickening what the colleges are doing and many unsuspecting parents pay to send their children to attend these left-wing, pc, biased schools who revise history and push Marxism.

[Coleus]

And the taxpayers subsidize this garbage!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Mi>Hey MSNBC we need more Abu Grab!! We can't get enough of that. Heck with this old WWII stuff. Most is in B/W anyway.

To paraphrase an old saying, you took the words right off my keyboard.

Frankly, I think the D-Day coverage has been a refreshing change. I think that must be what's bothering this guy.