Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Longest Day

I had hoped to post this on the sixth, but work and other factors interrupted me.  So it goes.  But four days is not too late.


June 6, 2012.  Today, 68 years ago, 6,603 Americans didn’t make it off of the beaches of Northern Normandy.  They died fighting the greatest threat to human existence that had yet been seen, and they did it with valor that few other battles have ever equaled.  No matter what you believe about patriotism, no matter what myriad flaws America suffered from at that time, we cannot allow ourselves to forget that these men died for our nation to survive, to grow.  It was the last of the great citizen-armies of the world.  They were us.  All our flaws and all our graces.  You could have been one.  Anyone could have.  Consider this, now, 68 years on.

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