I want to thank my good Friend Steve Walker for posting on facebook this reminder of the anniversary of June 6, 1945, D-Day. It marks in the annals of history the beginning of the end to a conflict where countless lives were spent needlesly by the evil in men's hearts who were determined to rule by an iron boot rather than by the even hand of freedom and liberty. And so, my commentary:
The Longest Day in history for some; those who boarded the landing craft, saw their comrades die in waves of bloodshed and who survived to be haunted by the blank stares and missing extremities of strangers who never got the chance to see tyranny avenged by freedom's might. And to the crews who drove them to their doom and some who died under shell fire before they reached the beach head. What hell they must have endured; we can only imagine and be forever grateful for the sacrifice of so many. I can still hear Mitch Miller's theme song from the film: The Longest Day. In any fight for liberty,we cannot be fixated on counting the cost, for freedom is not free and to the casualties of war, eternal glory. D. Wittler 6/6/13
The Longest Day in history for some; those who boarded the landing craft, saw their comrades die in waves of bloodshed and who survived to be haunted by the blank stares and missing extremities of strangers who never got the chance to see tyranny avenged by freedom's might. And to the crews who drove them to their doom and some who died under shell fire before they reached the beach head. What hell they must have endured; we can only imagine and be forever grateful for the sacrifice of so many. I can still hear Mitch Miller's theme song from the film: The Longest Day. In any fight for liberty,we cannot be fixated on counting the cost, for freedom is not free and to the casualties of war, eternal glory. D. Wittler 6/6/13
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