Posted on 04/01/2015 4:19:09 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Anyone have any idea what Churchill personally thought of Monty?
Neither will Franklin Roosevelt.
It struck me today that whereas the Allies on the western front are there only because they have to in order to win the war, Stalin’s advances on the eastern front my very well comport with the long-range plan of the USSR for world dominance. Stalin is probably very happy to be as far west as he can get - this is all real estate he’s gained “legitimately”. “It’s free for the taking,” I imagine him thinking.
Thoughtful and moving post. Thank you for sharing it.
I think you’re right. They weren’t known as “international socialists” for nothing.
You’re welcome. I wanted to highlight that this was Easter seventy years ago today, and that story does it very well.
Highlights one of the many differences between free governments and collectivist states: free countries see war as an unwelcome imposition that must be won but at a great cost whereas a socialist state see it as an opportunity to gain more power. A free country counts the cost in terms of lives lost and families that suffer, whereas a collectivist state, as we see firsthand today under the current U.S. regime, cares little for the cost to individuals, only for perceived opportunities for more state power.
Absolutely.
Good point.
1945 proves to be a pivotal point in history for many reasons, still to be realized as the year unfolds.
My friend doesn't know just why God has allowed this, nor did those chaplains, nor did Job--but one day, they will. Jesus did know why He suffered, for that is why He came; but even He could not help at one point asking, "Why?" Blessed is he who overcomes.
Amen.
The most important event of April 1945 is that I will be born. It may not mean much to other people but it certainly does to me.
In fact, the Nazi A-bomb project never got very far, and what there had been of it was over by now, after the destruction of the heavy-water plant at Telemark by the Norwegian underground aided by U.S. commandos.
In the US, the government at this point was censorsing almost all press discussion of atomic weapons. The only place they were being speculated about was in the science fiction magazines, where all of the stories assumed that only the Axis would consider using such terrible weapons.
Now that's racist.
Where is that little kid in the racist gif when you need him?
5.56mm
A cousin of my dad’s was in the Norwegian Underground. My dad asked him once what that was like, and what had he done (this would have been in the seventies.
“Telling you that I was in the underground was too much. You can never tell anyone.” Although he did say that he and his brother hid in the potato bin in the basement when the Germans came through. IIRC, that is the same way one of the boys hid in the book called “Snow Story”, about how the Norwegian kids got the gold out of Norway using their sleds!
When I was there in 1979 they still had a hatred, and a fear, of the Germans. The Soviets? “We share a border with them - never a problem!)
I’m beginning to believe that one of the main reasons we are here is to show the world God’s goodness. I have discovered that the word “glory”, especially as used in the New Testament, actually means “have a good opinion of.” So when we have a good opinion of God and his goodness, we are actually glorifying him.
The hard part is when we have problems which feels like it’s all cloudy and dark. Feels like there’s no more sun or it has stopped shining. Somehow that’s when we have to remind ourselves of all that God has done for us by sacrificing his own Son so that we can be saved. He FIRST loved us and he ALWAYS loves us. The world is fallen and broken, but God loves us even when we don’t understand why stuff is happening. The sun is still shining, we just don’t see it right now.
I think to the degree we are able by God’s grace to do that, without really trying we are glorifying God and, also often without realizing it we are showing others His goodness.
I am waiting for the 26th to find out what happened on the day I was born - the 25th.
I mentioned that to my friend this morning by way of illustrating just some of God's plan in allowing this trial in his life.
You preceded me by four years and six days. On this day 70 years ago my 21-year-old pappy was with the Twentieth Armored charging through southern Germany and hadn’t yet met my twenty-two year-old mom, who was working in a defense plant in Michigan. They met two years later in L.A., married a year later, and produced me the following year.
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