“a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.” FDR
Posted by Tina
Oliver North has written a wonderful tribute to brave men of the past, and of the present, as he recalls the importance of D-Day. I hope you enjoy, D-Day in Context, by Oliver North TownHall.com as you pay tribute on this day, June 6, 2008, the sixty-fourth anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
WASHINGTON — Sixty-four years ago this week, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came on the radio and implored Americans to “devote themselves in a continuance of prayer invoking thy help to our efforts.” The “effort” of which he spoke was Operation Overlord, the D-Day landing of 150,000 American and Allied troops at Normandy. The risks were so great that Winston Churchill told the people of Britain: “The invasion has been launched. The result is with God.” FDR described it as “a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.” ** Since then, those who fought their way ashore June 6, 1944, and successfully breached Hitler’s Atlantic Wall have been honored justifiably for their participation in the momentous event. On the 40th anniversary of the operation, Ronald Reagan stood on that “lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France” and spoke of that “giant undertaking unparalleled in human history” and praised “the boys of Pointe du Hoc the heroes who helped end a war.” ** But that was then; and this is now. This year, the anniversary of their achievement received little notice in the so-called mainstream media. Perhaps that’s because it would draw uncomfortable parallels between those who stormed the coast of France in 1944 and those who are fighting now — and winning — a war against radical Islam. Unlike those who braved their way into Hitler’s Fortress Europe, the young Americans fighting today’s battles reap few accolades from the potentates of the press or the liberal “leadership” in Washington.
We at Post Scripts solute them one and all on this day and every day.