4000 dead before the beach was secure. Were that today the press would be demanding withdrawal and surrender.
Lots of comments like:
We don’t belong there!
What American interests do our troops need to die for in Europe?
Get out now!
The price is too high.
We need to defend America first.
ETC
4,000. Good grief.
You’re right. The press would have made those death occur for nothing.
It’s hard to even think of young boys laying in pieces in a foreign land calling for their mothers.
It’s almost too much.
Which is why it should be one of the MOST IMPORTANT lessons in our history books.
And the first 20 minutes of Private Ryan should be mandatory viewing.
But it won’t be.
No war for oil.