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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