June 6, 2010, - 2:45 am
D-Day: Would We Have the Guts to Do it Today?
Sixty-six years ago today, on June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed in Nazi-occupied France and began the liberation of Europe. Our soldiers stormed Omaha Beach in Normandy. But would America have the guts, the stomach, the will to do it again, today? I’m not so sure. We’re condemning Israel for defending itself right off its own coast. And we’re doing nothing about the enemy, the new Nazis–Muslims–expanding their wide berth on our own shores.
Read this editorial, below, from Louisiana’s WBRZ News 2, and ask yourself, as I asked above, would we have the guts–the principle and moral high ground–to do this today, as America and most of the rest of the world condemns Israel for responding to enemy attacks, just miles from its shores? Also, remember that, even though it was a tactical surprise for which the Nazis were not prepared, thousands of American troops gave their lives on just this one day to begin the end of Nazi reign over Europe and the attacks of the Axis allies on American and Allied forces.
Today’s anniversary of the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy by Allied troops during World War II is an occasion to remember one of the high points in humanity’s long march toward liberty.
The invasion began shortly after midnight with the landing of 24,000 Allied airborne troops in France, which was occupied by Nazi Germany.
Amphibious landings began around 6:30 a.m. when 156,000 servicemen from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other Allied countries disembarked from more than 5,000 ships and Higgins landing craft into a wall of gunfire from German defenders.
The operation cost U.S. forces 2,499 dead in a single day, with total Allied deaths reaching 4,414.
Graves of American Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives in WII @ Normandy:
Hmmm . . . Which Religious Symbol is Missing?
The invasion was the beginning of the end of fascist tyranny across Europe.
Today, we remember those veterans among us who were on the beaches of Normandy that day.
We also remember those who never came home, and those who have died in the years since the war.
The world should never forget their valor.
AMEN. G-d Bless America and the souls of those courageous, valorous men who gave their lives at Normandy.
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It was most ambitious and audacious military operation in history… by far the largest and the resolve and the determination of American and Allied soldiers broke through to liberate Hitler’s Fortress Europe and liberate a continent from the thrall of the Nazi dark night. I don’t know we would have the guts to do it today. But D-Day is an eternal reminder that freedom can only be defended by the sacrifice of those who give up their lives for it. That is as true for our generation as it was for the generation that defeated Hitler and went on to secure the world in which we now live. Freedom itself must never be taken for granted and one day Americans may need to fight again to keep it.
Let us salute all the courageous men who made the ultimate sacrifice on the beaches of Normandy for us and may G-d bless America!
NormanF on June 6, 2010 at 2:59 am