Let’s Not Give It Away– D-Day plus 65
Jun 6th, 2009 by David Anderson
Over 215,000 allied soldiers and a similar number of Germans paid a very high price indeed for the expansionist tyranny of Hitler in the battles of D-Day and the following 3 months in the Normandy area. Unknown numbers of civilians had their lives disrupted. Many died or became war refuges. Yet like seeds blown in a terrible storm, freedom sprouted out from the debris and has sheltered the world.
The price paid by the men who stormed those shores can not be overstated. Let’s not give away what they earned through laziness, an unwillingness to persevere through the tough times, or a culture of ignorance regarding our heritage of liberty.
My uncle suffered injury by a grenade in the European theater of WW2. He doesn’t really talk about it. So it is up to those of us who have an inkling of understanding of the sacrifice those men faced to keep the fire they lit burning. They stood for faith in God and faith in the freedom and dignity of the human spirit to fly high in freedom. Let us do the same. Let the Army of Liberty roll on.
Hopefully these links work but this a link to youtube of a video of a Felton WWII Vet telling of his war and POW experience Its a 2 part video remake of a talk he gave at the Felton Memorial Day service
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76V8xrjFzvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkm1y-M0XE
Note from David, Thanks these were quite moving. I encourage everyone to watch at least one.
My Dad fought in WWII and he didn’t stand for anybody’s faith in god. He stood for freedom against tyranny. You defame the mission of many soldiers who fought and died in WWII by statements such as “They stood for faith in God.”
Many great Americans, like my Dad, did not stand for any such thing.
You can’t defame someone by saying something good. I will not let you wipe away the heritage of faith that is part of our American heritage.
My father was a DAV from the Pacific theater and my uncle was a purple heart vet in the European.
They both agreed with this prayer offered on D-Day by President Roosevelt. I understand there are different motivations among 10 million men and women serving. I was just referring to the majoritarian sentiment. There was a reason greater than personal preference that General Eisenhower ended his D-Day message with asking the “blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
President Roosevelt
Public opinion on our entry into World War II was divided. Quite a few corn-fed Republicans were mindless isolationists. There were also the CPUSA activists who were active in the ‘Peace Movement’. These were augmented by such patriots as Charles Lindbergh and Alice Roosevelt. Ambassador Kennedy was also preaching isolationism and planned a primary challenge to FDR.
Republican Senators Nye and Borah were typical of the corn-fed type. Their investigations of the alleged ‘merchants of death’ involved poking around the deepest technical secrets of duPont. Is it possible that their staff attorney Alger Hiss fed some of this to his GRU bosses in Moscow?
The ‘Peace Movement’ collapsed with the invasion of the USSR and supporting the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ was suddenly in.
We were faced with evil in the 1930s and some chose to ignore it. Republican Presidents who followed Wilson chose to put their faith in disarmament and pieces of paper called treaties. Hitler and his gang had begun demonstrating that a certain book should have been taken seriously. Nothing but talk followed the rape of Ethiopia and the Japanese effort to conquer China. Militarization of the Rhineland begat a diplomatic note of protest. Appeasement was in style and was good (short-term) politics. The poor Sudeten Germans were the Palestinians of the late 1930s and Czechoslovakia was forced to make suicidal.
For all of his economic follies, FDR used deceptiveness and persuasion to shift public opinion away from isolationism well before the attack on Pearl Harbor. His postwar plans would have been a disaster for civilization but he died at the proper time.
It seems like deja vu all over again. Obama is attempting to play the role of appeaser and play to what some see as the Muslim street. This astute student of politics is rather weak on history and he has obviously failed to learn from it. He can read some great catch phrases from the teleprompter. On the Republican side, political hustler Pat Buchanan can play social conservative while preaching neo-isolationism. The spirit of Nye and Borah is not dead.
There is an evil in the world that may be more dangerous than the former Axis enemy or even that of Stalinism. There was a strong element of rationalism (albeit the reason of criminals) in our former enemies but what we face now is amorphous. Where and how do we take preemptive action? Where are the command and control centers and the choke points?
While the Evil Empire collapsed from within (some nudges from a certain President and Pope seemed to have helped) we now see socialism advancing in this nation as the snake oil merchants are delivering in tank cars rather than bottles.
Big Media supports ObamaSoc and some elected Republicans can even have some kind words for him and his appointed henchmen. We should demand spirited opposition rather than rolling over and playing political possum.
They both agreed with this prayer offered on D-Day by President Roosevelt.
If I am going up against Nazi Germany with western civilization on the line, I am going to offer a prayer to Jesus, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, Dale Earnhardt, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Agreed. Though the last couple were just stupid.