Posted on 06/03/2004 8:11:09 PM PDT by anncoulteriscool
A local veteran prepares to go back to Normandy, France, for the first time since he approached Omaha Beach's 80-foot bluffs on June 6, 1944.
He hasn't spoken about it much over the past 60 years, not to anyone. His generation wasn't much for talk, and besides, he wouldn't have wished those images on anybody. And come to think of it, few people really asked. But the prospect of talking now -- in public, for Pete's sake, in front of friends and family and the few buddies who survive, and right there on the beach where the bullets flew, where the mines blew up, where he stood over a wounded pal in the chaos but had to keep on going -- well, it rattles him almost as much as the din of Hitler's guns.
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I've never understood why the WWII generation ended up having a bunch of worthless hippies for kids.
One theory I've heard is that they went through WW I as kids or maybe the great depression as kids and then WWII as adults and they came home and got married and had kids and then decided to try to make things easier for their kids to make sure that their kids would not have as rough as a life as they had. Maybe that caused some of their kids to be kinda soft and expect things from government. Just a theory.
Dr. Spock
We better remember because I am afraid this nation could never do anything near this again. The left and media would have made D-Day into a quagmire after the 1st hour and demanded a pullout.
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