Posted on 06/06/2017 11:03:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Folks, this is a major anniversary here, and we have got to recognize this. This is D-Day. June 6th on this day, a bunch of Americans and Brits stormed the northern beaches of France and saved the world, and they were a bunch of young men and kids. And I haven’t seen one — there may have been — but I haven’t seen one notification of it in the Drive-By Media today.
Granted, it’s a long time ago, it’s in the 1940s, and granted it’s warfare that we hopefully will not conduct in a similar fashion ever again, but it is crucially important. And that act, the storming of the Normandy beaches, coupled with the Battle of the Bulge, ending the spread of Nazism throughout Europe, saved the world and it saved the world for freedom.
And it was the United States that did it. And it was a bunch of 19- and 20- and 21-year-old people who did it. There are cemeteries all over France, all over Italy, all over Europe that hold the bodies of American and international heroes who died in that effort. And it’s such a different time. I don’t even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus how much of it is just ignored or looked back on with mockery or insincerity or what have you.
But it was one of the most crucially important events in all of human history in terms of the preservation of freedom and liberty and the notion of democracy and things associated with it. And I would be remiss if I did not make mention of this today.
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RUSH: It was June 6th, 1944, 73 years ago, Allied forces, mainly Americans and Brits and mostly young kids landed in Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, and the entire Normandy sector of France to save the free world. And I wonder, if something like that was necessary today, could we do it. We had a caller last week who said that the problem with Millennials is they don’t see evil in the world. I objected.
Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day 6/6/84
They clearly do see evil. They just don’t see the evil you and I see. The evil they see is us. The evil that many Millennials see is Republicans, white people.
My mother phoned to remind me this is D-Day. My grandfathers fought in WW2, and so did one great-grandfather. My lawyer is a WW2 vet. I have neighbors who served in that war.
It’s not forgotten yet!
Dad was there, too. Vets playing taps at his funeral killed me.
Sent out an email to the whole family this morning with a Peanuts cartoon of the gang at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This way the kids can relate too.
Actually a touching pic.
Today's kids can relate to the Peanuts' cartoon?
It must never be forgotten.
Sure. They ALL watch the Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween cartoons :)
:) I wish I had had this picture earlier. It’m more prescient.
PERTINENT!!!!!!
Can you post that picture here—I’d like to see it.
At least our local TV News channel did a short (but nice) piece this evening on today’s D-Day Anniversary.
Thank you for posting this, Kaslin.
You are welcome
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