Museum to D-Day fails to mention the war

The Times (UK) ^ | 1/27/06 | Adam Sage

[sono]

This was what they tried to foist on NY City with the "International Moral EquivalencyFreedom Center."

[dinok]

I have always wanted to go and see the place my uncle died to free, but its occupied by morons and America hatting Muslims.

Hint to the French...time you made friends with the people who freed you. Before I die they will be begging us to free them again.

[hometoroost]

Good thing the French didn't create cornflakes because they could screw those up too.

[Billthedrill]

But the museum’s brochure talks in pacifist tones of the need to “combat the violence around us . . . Peace begins at home, in the office, with our neighbours.”

"Combat" the violence? Isn't that sort of, well, violent?

[atomicpossum]

A Leftist boutique.

A society that is unable to concentrate on singular issues, particularly one like this of historic good and evil, is doomed.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The French re-write of history would make Jimmah Cahtah proud.

[Cicero]

This kind of nonsense has overtaken quite a few museums and other institutions, with the exception of those with a history and a well developed sense of their mission, but it's especially dispiriting at a museum meant to memorialize those who gave their lives at Normandy.

[dinok]

And we thought the Smithonian was PC. This place takes the cake.

[Rabble]

"Before I die they will be begging us to free them again."

Beg they will and their pleadings will fall on deaf ears this time. I too lost an uncle to free those self righteous fools. They are not worthy of American blood!

[SteveMcKing]

'This was what they tried to foist on NY City with the "International Moral Equivalency Freedom Center."'

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the moving spirits behind the IFC were Michael Posner, Anthony Romero, Eric Foner and George Soros. If the International Freedom Center had been built it would have been the companion to the Crescent of Embrace, the proposed memorial to the Flight 93 victims in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The effort illustrates the extraordinary importance that the Left places on the control of symbols. By preference, a good Marxist symbol should represent the very opposite of its counterpart in reality because its foremost goal, in common with unscrupulous Mesmerists, is to emasculate the mind.

The Belmont Club

[Squawk 8888]

Fortunately, there is still a D-Day museum in France that tells the real story. It was built by veterans.

http://www.junobeach.org/Centre/index.html

[BluH2o]

My uncle, a Canadian infantryman, was severally wounded just south of Caen in the battle of the Falaise Gap, August 1944. He died some twenty years ago, but lived, unfortunately, with the pain of his wounds for the rest of his life. Not sure he would buy into this PC propaganda ...

[BobS]

"I have always wanted to go and see the place my uncle died to free, but its occupied by morons and America hatiing Muslims."

You can feel relieved by this: My buddy and I from Torrejon AB, Spain spent a month of leave running around Europe. We didn't like France in 1985. We went to the Eiffel Tower.

We urinated all over elevator #2 that goes to the bar on top.

Then we silently sat at the far side of the bar from elevator #2 and checked out the people leaving it. Until it was time to get to our 1st Class train to Diepp, with bunk beds and air conditioning and a little sink to wash up in the next day.

Be proud of the Air Force:) We do things before you think of them:):)

[goldfinch]

We didn't like France in 1985. We went to the Eiffel Tower. We urinated all over elevator #2 that goes to the bar on top

Way to represent your country, there. You sure make this American proud. What a totally immature and classless thing to do. And even more amazing, you seem to think it is something to be proud of. Pathetic.

[steel_resolve]

Agreed. Their sacrifice is something very very powerful and cannot be dimmed by time, and in my opinion this is a slap in their collective faces. I'm constantly disappointed in Europe. It never ends...

[Last Dakotan]

...and the need for “eco-responsibility”.

Every damn Zoo I take my kids to is full of that message.

[Last Dakotan]

Last time I was in Paris the entire city smelled like urine.

[BobS]

Undercover and immature.

[usmcobra]

Last time I was in Paris the entire city smelled like urine.

You should visit Korea.