I said it first ....
Posted on 03/06/2003 8:19:31 PM PST by RobRoy
To all Americans,
Almost sixty years ago, my brother, best friend and I clawed our way to shore at Dog Green on Omaha Beech. My brother was cut down in the surf by a machine gun nest and my best friend was smashed to pieces by a mortar. That same mortar, took my left leg.
Soon I will join those whom I left behind on that hellish battlefield so many years ago. I have lived to regret many things in my younger life. I regret the tattoo I got while drunk one night in London. I regret the falling out I had with my son for fifteen years. I regret the things I said and did in the idealistic brashness of my youth. But I shall never ever regret or feel shame for what I and my country did on D-day.
It was my duty and my own personal moment of honor. A duty that all Americans should feel obliged to the country that raised them nurtured them and blessed them. At that time, we had a very small minority of peace activists. However, they were not vocal in comparison to today's standards. Those who felt they could not take a life joined the medical corps and served to save lives. Some worked long hard hours in factories to support those on the front lines. They sacrificed in their own way and stand in the light of honor forever.
But, virtually nobody, stood on street corners screaming obscenities, verbally abusing senior citizens and veterans, and boasting treasonous signs like the spiteful lot I saw this weekend in my hometown. My heart sinks every time I think of them. For they have forgotten the vicious attack on 9/11, the gallant crew of the Cole, the marines bombed. They ignore the school buses full of children and young people who are bombed in Israel by cowardly punks who have chosen to live their lives in dishonor.
These people are a thankless, self righteous, self centered, mixed up lot. They extol the virtues of public free speech and silence those who pray in public. A bad day for them is a Dow Jones, which dropped a couple of points. Meanwhile, some dedicated young person is suffering through the disciplines of boot camp and battlefield conditions to protect their unappreciated right to free trade and speech.
I am 85 now. Cancer will soon claim my bones back to my maker. I have lived and worked many hard and challenging years. I never took a handout or expected one. Yet after all the work of my generation, I feel saddened and disheartened. My biggest regret is that all our sacrifices are for naught. This savage vocal minority is given free press and license to spread their dishonorable treasonous lies in support of an evil darkness that the world has not seen since Hitler. For indeed, Mr. Saddam is like unto Mr. Hitler in 1936. If he had been dealt with then, we would not have had a D-Day years later. To those who support our troops and the war on this evil called terrorism, you have my blessings. To all the pansy punks and their signs of treason and hatred to this country I curse you. Your place in eternity is not with those of honor who went before you. It is in a hell of your own making, lined with the curtains and tapestries of dishonor and traitorous deeds.
These are fiull of peach borers, or as folks up in Illinois say, "peach bores."
I said it first ....
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