D-Day Reflections

Psst, today is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Pass it on, because it’s being virtually ignored.

I mean, this is Pride Month, after all. Why waste a single day of that self-centered, politically correct celebration to honor American soldiers who helped liberate Europe, again?

I violated my rule, in the pursuit of research, and checked out today’s edition of the Johnstown Woke Gazette that a neighbor friend of my wife’s had dropped off at our house. The local Woke Gazette, a thin sheet costing $2 daily at the newsstand and pandering to all causes left, managed to get in one story reference to D-Day and a cartoon regarding the historic event, both on its editorial page.

Meanwhile, stories that ran elsewhere, on mandating insurance coverage for contraceptives and the launch of the Nintendo Switch II, occupied more combined column inches.

And so goes the pursuit of ignoring, minimizing and/or retelling history.

This sort of history used to be taught in school, but no longer. Somehow, the liberals in charge have deemed it insignificant to recall events such as D-Day, while they push DEI, trans rights and the other sorts of political indoctrination that has replaced education, as early as elementary school.

School children no longer are taught that on this day in 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops and airplanes was sent to assault the fortified seashore of France, the first strike in liberating Europe from the German occupiers.

Those Nazis – real Nazis, not the pretend ones leftists see in any conservative citizen – were, to borrow a phrase from President Trump, bad hombres.

It used to be that the atrocities Nazis committed against Jews were used to epitomize their amazing brutality. But, these days, with anti-semitism being widely practiced and accepted on American college campuses and at various other locales, such things are not as astounding.

The good news is these days we don’t need to sent troops to Europe to combat anti-semitism. We can do it right here on our own soil, sadly.

But, back to D-Day. It used to be outlets such as the History Channel would run day-long marathons of D-Day programming. Other channels, such as Turner Classic Movies, would run World War II cinema.

This afternoon, History Channel is airing episodes of “Secrets Declassified,” which run into episodes later of “The UnXplained.”

TCM was running “Brigadoon,” to be followed by “Father of the Bride.”

NatGeo did have some World War II programming, and channel 130 on my DISH package was running a series of World War II movies.

But the downgrade in coverage and acknowledgment is amazing.

Ceremonies were held in the Normandy area of France today to commemorate the event. Back home, it’s pretty much just another day. Perhaps if it were declared a national holiday and people could skip work for a day they’d notice. Probably not.

The whole subject of D-Day is timely because, yet again, Europe is looking to write checks that its military can’t cash.

It is conveniently forgotten that the West had a role in provoking this Russian invasion of Ukraine by continuing to make overtures of expanding NATO to include Ukraine and placing missiles there.

Recruiting a country that is on a nation’s doorstep to be a member of a rival military group is provocation. Recall that when Russia stationed missiles in Cuba in the early 1960s. President John F. Kennedy thought it was worth risking nuclear war to get those missiles out, and he backed down the Russians.

Still, Ukraine must be aided, at all costs, against its Russian invaders argue Europeans and American Neocons. Ignore, please, that Ukraine is led by a pipsqueak man of questionable ability and ethics.

And, while the people in charge of Great Britain, France and Germany (yes, the Germans are against the aggressors in this case) it is understood if not said aloud that it is the U.S. military being counted on to do the heavy lifting.

It’s one thing to provoke the Russian Bear with drone strikes. It’s quite another to put boots on the ground and try to push into Russian territory.

If things went bad for the Russians on that front and we did make inroads, please understand Russians possess enough nuclear weaponry to incinerate this Earth many times over. Perhaps loud Greta should be mouthing off about this instead of doing photo opps on a Hamas sailing vessel.

Come to think of it, can you imagine the progeny if Elon impregnated Greta?

The current state of uncertainty in Europe is exactly the sort of perilous time when we need to rely on President Donald J. Trump to say no to our European “allies” so eager to spill American blood and spend American treasure.

It’s time to tell them if they’re big enough to get themselves into these scraps, they should be big enough to get themselves out.

Along that line, it’s time for the U.S. to say goodbye to NATO.

USAfacts.org estimates the U.S. has contributed almost $22 trillion to NATO over the past 75 years, more than half of our current national debt of slightly more than $36 trillion.

That would produce the kind of budgetary savings I could get behind.