Posted on 09/03/2017 5:44:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The scenes of destruction wrought on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Harvey cannot do other than move even the stoniest heart. One aches at the sight of people who have lost everything, including loved ones. Yet amid these scenes of suffering and anguish there also shines a glimmer of hope. As I watched footage of ordinary people piloting their fishing boats down the streets of their flooded neighborhoods, plucking strangers from their upstairs bedrooms and rooftops and taking them to safety, I could not help but recall the events of September 1940.
Britain was in grave peril. Hitler’s armies were in the process of overrunning the Low Countries and France. After Belgium’s untimely surrender, the entire British Expeditionary Force and their allies—300,000 men and all of their vital war materiel—came under threat of imminent destruction. They were trapped. Hitler’s armies were the hammer and Dunkirk’s rocky coastline was the anvil: crush the British forces and England would be laid bare.
Winston Churchill’s island nation faced an existential threat. The poignancy of the challenge was matched only by the defiant British response. The ships of the British Navy were too large to get close enough to the beach where the flower of British manhood waited for help to appear on the horizon.The clock was running and the desperate rescue operation would have failed had not the British people plunged into the breach and retrieved the army using a ragtag flotilla of fishing boats, private yachts, tugboats, and just about anything else that would float. The timely, doughty intervention of the “Little Ships of Dunkirk” as they later came to be known, saved the British forces.
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Houston pretty much devastated the “deplorables” meme of the Democratic Party.
The Battle of Dunkirk was in May and June, 1940, not September.
“The scenes of destruction wrought on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Harvey cannot do other than move even the stoniest heart.”
Unless you are a leftist, in which case you think they should all die because they voted for Trump.
De Tocqueville wrote about this in 1830’s when commented on
the capacity of Americans to organize themselves
And Irma is bearing down on the east coast. If it makes landfall in ga or sc, nc will be nailed.
Yes, not much point clicking on a blog post where the writer doesn’t even know how to use Wikipedia.
Don’t be a whiner. It is a good article in spite of the error.
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