D-Day
posted at 9:02 am on June 6, 2006 by Allahpundit
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I like to imagine they were thinking, “Why do they hate us?”
Don’t forget. BC and Moran didn’t.
Update: The American Thinker:
Nobody will long remember the satanic jokes of today, but freedom-loving people will always remember June 6, 1945
Maybe. But on balance, I think June 6, 1944 was more important.
Update: Babalu Blog reprints the communique from Christianist lunatic Dwight Eisenhower invoking “Almighty God” while Confederate Yankee reprints a most intemperate set of remarks indeed from Gen. G.S. Patton. What would Andrew Sullivan say?
Update: I just got an e-mail from a retired Army Major who thinks his father might have been on the Higgins boat photographed above:
My father believes that this picture is from the landing craft he was on. He was assigned to 3rd Platoon, C Company, 16th Infantry Regt, 1st Infantry Division which landed at Easy Red, Omaha Beach. He maybe the soldier at the upper right side of the picture or the one just to the left of that one and slightly behind. He remembers seeing the knockout tank that is in the center of the picture
I have confirmed by a visit to the National Archives that this picture was taken from a landing craft that cam from the USS Samuel Chase a Coast Guard ship.
Update: John Noonan at Op-For remembers the Rangers’ finest hour.
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By STRANGE coincidence, the DUmmies at the Democrat Underground also picked TODAY to declare that we are ALL gay:
http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-we-are-all-gay.html
pjcomix on June 6, 2006 at 9:24 AM
The French hated the American presence soon after the invasion, for they got in the way of French life. Soldiers were treated rudely in Paris almost immediately after the freeing of the city, and continued to be for the rest of the war. The English likewise were annoyed at our presence often during the pre-invasion and post-invasion months, for American troops had money and the English didn’t. They also ate better than the English did, both on the civilian and military level. The British Navy often served its sailors sausage laced with sawdust to extend the meal. Something about biting the hand that feeds (or fed) you comes to mind here…
clyde on June 6, 2006 at 9:25 AM
Personally, the last time I looked, I am not gay. Maybe tomorrow, but probably not then either…I guess this means I can’t be a Democrat ever again.
clyde on June 6, 2006 at 9:26 AM
Thank God for all those who served in WWII! They are truly the Greatest Generation!
It’s just a shame that we could never muster the courage to do it again and, as a result, I’m afraid we’ve already lost WWIII.
If I’m right, all who were killed on D-Day died for nothing!
What would they think of us today??? How we’ve let them down.
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 6, 2006 at 9:42 AM
They say the British soldiers wore “red coats” to hide the sight of blood so it wouldn’t alarm the troops. Then why did the French wear brown pants?
Shmo on June 6, 2006 at 10:13 AM
WWIII is not lost, yet
The Islamists are slowly winning, but there is still hope the tide will turn.
The Iraqis don’t support the slaughter of innocents, by the Islamists, so maybe the tide can be turned.
Marvin on June 6, 2006 at 10:16 AM
We must never forget the courage and sacrifices that this generation both displayed and endured. As time begins to diminish their presence, every American should watch the movie, “Band of Brothers” and maybe, just maybe we will regain our senses. I watched the entire movie over the Memorial Day weekend.
d1carter on June 6, 2006 at 10:24 AM
The British troops used to say that the Americans were “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” The Americans replied that the British were “underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.” Visit my blog at http://ordinaryeverydaychristian.blogspot.com for my modest contributions to remembering D-Day.
brucearmstrong1 on June 6, 2006 at 10:29 AM
LOL Brucearmstrong1, greatest quote of the day!
Wyrd on June 6, 2006 at 10:46 AM
Great Patton quote:
“Each man must not only think of himself, but of his buddy fighting beside him. We don’t want yellow cowards in this army. They should all be killed off like flies. If not they will go back home after the war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed brave men. Kill off the goddamn cowards and we’ll have a nation of brave men.”
Apparently the cowards were harder to kill than was presumed.
inmanjh on June 6, 2006 at 10:55 AM
It is also the 46th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, a battle that rivals Trafalgar. Our sailors sank four Japanese carriers. The Battle of Midway was the high water mark for Japan’s navy, and after this crushing lost they would be put on the defensive for the remainder of the war.
harmonica on June 6, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Can you imagine how the MSM would cover D-Day today???
Hell the Germans would know everything about the invasion from watching CNN & Company….
Abigail Adams on June 6, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Living in Paris for 2+ years I made it a point to visit Normandy. I visited St James cemetary to look up a fallen loved one for a relative. It is an incredible experience. The French did not and do not deserve the blood spilled for them. If you wish to see some photos I took of it go here:
http://www.geocities.com/labwrsparis/normandy/normandy
labwrs on June 6, 2006 at 11:47 AM
In a recent history of WW2 that I just finished, concerning the 101st Airborne, men came to the conclusion that the British women were dirty, the French were dirty AND lazy, and the Dutch were the best of all, clean and happy to see them throughout the war and afterwards. They also thought the Germans were clean and organized. That was before they saw the organization of the concentration camps. In that case, cleanliness was NOT next to Godliness apparently.
clyde on June 6, 2006 at 11:53 AM
Great. We have gotten to the point that we have to use everything to make our partisan point. People who died on D-Day were of all political stripes. That’s kinda the point of what they were fighting for. My father was wounded in the Italian campaign (Cassino) and was a die hard patriot and democrat til the day he died. You want lock step thinking, you would have loved Adolf and company.
honora on June 6, 2006 at 12:06 PM
I will walk in proud lockstep with every one that thanks our veterans and supports the soldiers.
They decided to put themselves in harms way for our country. Irregardless of anyones personal views of the wars, the soldiers made a decision to fight when and where the country tells them to, and for that they deserve all the respect I can give them.
Wyrd on June 6, 2006 at 1:04 PM
honora-no lockstep thinking around here…any more than you are guilty of.
Remember D-Day. That’s something we can all do. Remember the sacrifices Americans made, and honor the mission that D-Day helped accomplish. If honora feels that that is partisan, I shrug my shoulders and move on.
Doug on June 6, 2006 at 1:43 PM
A mother asked President Bush. “Why did my son have to die in Iraq”? A mother asked Prsident Kennedy. “Why did my son have to die in Vietnam”? A mother asked President Truman. “Why did my son have to die in Korea”? A mother asked President F. D. Rooselvelt. “Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima”? A mother asked President W. Wilson. “Why did my son have to die on a battlefield in France”? A mother asked President A. Lincolin. “Why did my son have to die at Getttesburg”? A mother asked President G. Washington. “Why did my son have to die at Valley Forge”? A long, long time ago a mother asked “hevenly father why did my son have to die on a cross outside Jersusalem”? The answer to all these questions is the same so that people could live in peace and freedom… So if you don’t stand in back of our fighting troops, please stand in front of them!!!
birdman on June 6, 2006 at 1:51 PM
Shouldn’t DU have waited three days to come out of the closet. 6/9 seems more appropriate? Just sayin’.
pistolero on June 6, 2006 at 2:02 PM
My U.S. flag is flying today (as always), with a special purpose for this day. A remembrance for all those who served our country in WW II, and especially for those who lose lives and loved ones on D-Day. I don’t see another flag flying in my neighborhood. Sad.
gary on June 6, 2006 at 5:17 PM
My father was an Army Air Corp B-24 turret gunner in the Pacific and my uncle was killed over Germany in a B-17 during WWII, so my family knows what service to their country means.
In the seventies, my mother worked for a Datsun dealership, and my father eventually drove a Datsun. He always said, “Jake, (my nickname) I can’t believe I’m driving a Jap car! I used to shoot at those guys!” I learned then that everything is relative. But I was always really proud of him.
right as rain man on June 6, 2006 at 6:07 PM
We live in a country that manages to produce the best fighting forces in the world. These are not people fighting for a dream. These are warriors fighting to keep the dream for the rest of us. Each one of them deserves our respect and dedication.
May God bless them all.
Hening on June 7, 2006 at 9:30 AM
Doug: did you not read some of the comments on this thread? “Down at the Democratic Underground? “Cowards” “All who were killed on D-Day died for nothing” Shrug your shoulders all you want, but take a minute now and then to take your head out of your ….. Our great country is being torn apart by lunatics on both sides, people who insist that not only are people who disagree with them wrong, they are evil. The beauty of this being, I have to logically prove someone is wrong, good and evil are subjective.
honora on June 7, 2006 at 3:43 PM
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