D-Day

By Brian Kirwin | June 6, 2008
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Doubtful that anyone captured the bravery and sacrifice of June 6, 1944 than Ronald Reagan did in this speech 40 years later (with the possible exception of Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan).

Reagan captured the meaning and emotion of “boys of Pointe du Hoc.”

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

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2 Responses to “D-Day”

John Hart on June 6th, 2008 8:36 am

Very well said Brian (and President Reagan of course)
J.R. on June 6th, 2008 9:04 am

War and politics are inextricably linked, and while we remember the sacrifices of those who put down tyranny in a previous generation, we have to remember that tyranny is still just around the corner.

Thomas Sowell reminds us of that in his latest column, and, today, is a good day to remember it.

Just as the Nazis did not find it enough to simply kill people in their concentration camps, but had to humiliate and dehumanize them first, so we can expect terrorists with nuclear weapons to both humiliate us and force us to humiliate ourselves, before they finally start killing us.

They have already telegraphed their punches with their sadistic beheadings of innocent civilians….

They have already telegraphed their intention to dictate to us….

The terrorists have given us as clear a picture of what they are all about as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did during the 1930s– and our “leaders” and intelligentsia have ignored the warning signs as resolutely as the “leaders” and intelligentsia of the 1930s downplayed the dangers of Hitler.

As we remember D-day, let’s not forget that the world remains a very dangerous place…one that still has the specter of the atom bomb.