Remembering the longest day
Sixty-three years ago today, the fate of Europe was decided by a few thousand intrepid young American, British, Canadian and allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen who fought through hell to rescue a continent.
Today we do not grieve for the men that paid the ultimate price on the shores of Normandy that fateful day, but rather celebrate and thank God Almighty that such brave men lived at all.
We pray that those that still carry the wounds from this day and all the days surrounding it, whether they be the physical wounds from action with the enemy or the mental wounds from losing friends and loved ones, find peace in knowing that your pain and sacrifices helped save an entire continent and millions of people from unthinkable suffering. It was a noble and worthy cause.
No less worthy of our praise is the effort our current "Band of Brothers" is engaged in, for they too are helping to save an entire region and millions of people from unthinkable suffering.
The peoples of the Middle East are no less deserving of peace and freedom from the fascist oppression that has enslaved them for millennia than the Europeans from the fascist oppression they faced in 1944, and we must question the ethics and moral quality of anyone who suggests they are.
All images are the outstanding work of Chris at the Military Motivator
(Editors note: Ironic isn't it how the site is called "Military Motivator" and yet it isn't the military that derives motivation from these images, but rather we who derive motivation from our military.)
Comments
Great stuff, Steve.
We also need to acknowledge the fact that both the Rangers of Pointe du Hoc and the Marines of Fallujah - and all their brothers in both wars - fought then and are fighting now overseas to neutralize the enemy and keep them from continuing their attacks on America itself.
The disloyal opposition can cry "Iraq didn't have anything to do with 9/11!" all they want. We're not there to revenge the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. We're there to forestall the same fate from reaching the Sears Tower and the Capitol. Six years without attacks suggests it's been a great strategy, even if we can fault some of the implementation.
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June 6, 2007 10:28 AM
The incredible thing to me is that, in a country that at first glance in no way, shape or form resembles the patriotic land of the past (mostly an MSM facade), we keep finding young men and women willing to make these kinds of sacrifices. If it is even possible, in some ways I feel that these "happy few" are even more brave than their predecessors. Think of how much scorn the volunteers of today must go through just to enlist, as opposed to the respect given to those who enlisted on December 8th, 1941. Back then it was expected that if you were physically able you would join the cause. Today you have to be prepared to fight just to get into the recruiters office.
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June 6, 2007 11:20 AM