Friday, May 8, 2015
Happy VE Day, Everybody!
HURLEY THE HISTORIAN says on this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. It’s hard to imagine anything like that happening during America’s Dark Ages of Obama, especially by all those Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span, Free-Stuff Grabbing, Low-Information Obama Voters Who Put Obama In The White House—Twice, and get all of their information from our Obama Supporters in the Press.
Over at GrassTopsUSA, Don Feder says it was the good war, fought by the Greatest Generation. It was a war for the survival of civilization. It was the deadliest conflict in history. It was America’s finest hour. [READ MORE HERE]
Images flash before us – Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper said to guarantee “peace for our time,” Hitler giving a stiff-arm salute at a Nuremberg rally, a Czech woman weeping as panzers rolled into Prague, a smiling FDR wearing his naval cape, his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle, Churchill flashing a victory sign, GIs wading ashore on Omaha Beach, skeletal survivors in a liberated death camp, and a Russian soldier raising the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building above the ruins of Berlin.
(The Blower, however, prefers the photograph to the right.)
Over 60 million died in the Second World War – 3% of the world’s population in 1939. The death toll included 291,557 U.S. servicemen. More than 800,000 were wounded. There were 464 Medals of Honor awarded, many posthumously.
World War II isn’t ancient history. In the United States, more than a million veterans of the war are still alive, though their median age is 92 and we are, on average, losing 423 every day.
If you meet a World War II vet, thank him, gratefully shake his hand, and make a silent vow that the sacrifices his generation made shall not have been in vain.
More Patriotic Flag-Waving Later