"Note to Snowflakes: Unlike What You Whine About, These Heroes Were REALLY Leaving Their Safe Zones"

Jeff Dunetz reminds us that

June 6, 2020, is the 76th Anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. The invasion that saved the world from Nazi tyranny.
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Codenamed Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”

...Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was certain there would be no invasion between June 5 and 8 because the tides would not be favorable.

Rommel was very wrong. On June 6th, more than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foothold in Continental Europe. Within ten days, there were half a million troops ashore, and within three weeks, there were two million.

From Google:

The D simply stands for “day.” The designation was traditionally used for the date of any important military operation or invasion, according to the National World War II Museum. Thus, the day before June 6, 1944, was known as D-1 and the days after were D+1, D+2, D+ and so on.

From Dunetz:

The invasion was the most massive amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed the allies to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolph Hitler’s troops, and save the world from tyranny.

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Climb the cliffs and watch the Nazis run back to Germany!

Did you see this video of a 97-year-old man parachuting into Normandy just as he did 75 years ago with 18,000 other parachuters?

“Princes and bureaucrats and traitors, be silent. Be gone. We are now and forever one with the sea and the sky and the wind. We braved the steel rain. We march on.”

I missed this post by Gerard Vanderleun in American Digest on June 6.

Today your job is straightforward. First you must load 40 to 50 pounds on your back. Then you need to climb down a net of rope that is banging on the steel side of a ship and jump into a steel rectangle bobbing on the surface of the ocean below you. Others are already inside the steel boat shouting and urging you to hurry up.

Once in the boat you stand with dozens of others as the boat is driven towards distant beaches and cliffs through a hot hailstorm of bullets and explosions. Boats moving nearby are, from time to time, hit with a high explosive shell and disintegrate in a red rain of bullets and body parts. Then there’s the smell of men near you fouling themselves as the fear bites into their necks and they hunch lower into the boat. That smell mingles with the smell of cordite and seaweed.

In front of you, over the steel helmets of other men, you can see the flat surface of the bow’s landing ramp still held in place against the sea. Soon you are within range of the machine guns that line the cliffs above the beach ahead. The metallic death sound of their bullets clangs and whines off the front of the ramp.

Then the coxswain shouts and the klaxon sounds. Then you feel the keel of the LVCP grind against the rocks and sand of Normandy as the large shells from the boats in the armada behind you whuffle and moan overhead. Then the explosions all around increase in intensity and then the bullets from the machine guns in the cliffs ahead and above rattle and hum along the steel plates of the boat and the men crouch lower. Then somehow all lean forward as, at last, the ramp drops down and you see the beach. Then the men surge forward and you step with them. Then you are out in the chill waters of the channel wading in towards sand already doused with death, past bodies bobbing in the surf staining the waters crimson. Then you are on the beach.

It’s worse on the beach.

The bullets keep probing along the sand digging holes, looking for your body, finding others that drop down like sacks of meat with their lines to heaven cut. You run forward because there’s nothing but ocean at your back and more men dying and… somehow… you reach a small sliver of shelter at the base of the cliffs. There are others there, confused and cowering and not at all ready to go back out into the storm of steel that keeps pouring down. And then someone, somewhere nearby, tells you all to press forward, to go on, to somehow get off that beach and onto the high ground behind it, and because you don’t know what else to do, you rise up and you move forward, beginning, one foot after another, to take back the continent of Europe.

If you are lucky, very lucky, on that day and the days after, you will walk all the way to Germany and the war will be over and you will go home to a town somewhere on the great land sea of the Midwest and you won’t talk much about this day or any that came after it, ever.

They’ll ask you, throughout long decades after, “What did you do in the war?” You’ll think of this day and you will never think of a good answer. That’s because you know just how lucky you were.

If you were not lucky on that day you lie under a white cross on a large lawn 75 long gone years later.

Somewhere above you among the living weak princes and fat bureaucrats and rank traitors mumble platitudes and empty praises about actions they never knew and men they cannot hope to emulate.

You hear their prattle, dim and far away outside the brass doors that seal the caverns of your long sleep. You want them to go, to leave you and your brothers in arms to your brown study of eternity.

“Seventy-five years? Seems long to the living. It’s but an inch of infinite time. Leave us and go back to your petty lives. We march on and you, you weaklings primping and parading above us, will never know how we died or how we lived.

If we hear you at all now, your mewling only makes us ask, among ourselves, ‘Died for what?’

“Princes and bureaucrats and traitors, be silent. Be gone. We are now and forever one with the sea and the sky and the wind. We braved the steel rain. We march on.”

They understood what was at stake

Today is D-Day. On June 6, 1944, we and our allies landed in Normandy.



AP reports,

French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump praised the soldiers, sailors and airmen who took part in the invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, saying it was the turning point that ended Nazi tyranny and ensured peace for Europe.

“You are the pride of our nation, you are the glory of our republic, and we thank you from the bottom of our heart,” Trump said of the warriors who took part in what he called the ultimate fight of good against evil in World War II.

“They battled not for control and domination, but for liberty, democracy and self-rule,” Trump said in a speech at the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, the bloodiest of five landing beaches.

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Andrew Klavan points out that there is a reason that Make America Great Again slogan resonates among those of us who support Trump. Yesterday, President Trump read a prayer given by FDR on the occasion of the Normandy invasion. Andrew brings us that video. Andrew points out that, unlike FDR, the Democrats in more recent years have done everything they could to chase God out of the public square.

The Left is a corporate power base. YouTube has now demonetized Stephen Crowder's videos. When you get rid of this idea of life as a spiritual enterprise, what are you left with? More power, more control from the elites, who don't have to sacrifice anything, unlike those who landed amidst machine gun fire in Normandy.
When they come with guns to take your freedom away, people find the courage to fight, but when they suck slowly our freedom, today Stephen Crowder, tomorrow someone on Twitter as we get closer to the 2020 election, who is going to stand up for those individuals who are being silenced by the big tech corporations?

D-Day, June 6, 1944

Today was the 74th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. President Reagan spoke to American vets of Normandy on the 40th anniversary.

72 years ago today

No one on this earth needs to watch this video more than Barack Obama.


Why do I say this about Obama? Frances Martel reports in Breitbart,

In his speech in Hiroshima Friday, President Obama described the bombing of Hiroshima as an “evil” and alleged that “every great religion… [has had] believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill.”

In 1984 Muhammed Ali endorsed President Reagan for re-election, saying, “He’s keeping God in schools and that’s enough,” Ali told reporters when asked to elaborate on his endorsement, as the New York Times reported in 1984.

D-Day began 71 years ago today

Victoria Advocate reminds us that D-Day began 71 years ago today.

Saturday is the 71st anniversary of D-Day.

Early June 1944 is the beginning of the final phase of World War II in Europe. Most of the continent is held in the grip of Adolf Hitler's occupying forces. German garrisons dot the French coast facing the English Channel.

On the other side, a massive Allied buildup of men and machines of war swells in southern England. As a break in bad weather is finally forecast, the order is given to go on June 6. D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, begins.

5 things you don't know about D-Day

1. The "D" in D-Day doesn't stand for anything - it's just a designation for whichever day a military operation begins.

2. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for D-Day with the words, "OK, let's go."

3. D-Day involved 4,126 landing craft.

4. Hollywood director John Ford led a camera crew on Omaha Beach filming newsreel footage.

5. More than 156,000 Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day; total Allied casualties are estimated at 10,000 for the day, with 2,500 dead (Total German casualties are not known, but estimates range from 4,000 to 9,000)

Read more here.