Blogs For Victory

Remember the day:

They are almost all gone now, the men who liberated Europe. A few very old men linger on and we are thus privileged to have them with us for a little while. But the day will soon come when all of them will have gone home – gone to be with the brothers they left on the beaches and fields of Normandy. I wonder who will laugh most – those who died there, or those who died many years later?

For us, it is a matter of remembering – what they did and why they did it. We forget too fast these days, especially in the younger generation. We forget that regular, every day Americans quitted their lives and went to liberate people they didn’t know and places they had never been. Evil had risen in the world, and in trusting faith they went forth and did their duty – more than 300,000 of them giving, in Lincoln’s words, “the last full measure of devotion”.