It's D-Day

On June 6, 1944, 160,000 allied troops landed on a 5-mile stretch of the French coastline marking the beginning of the end of WWII.  Those soldiers, representing the courage and fortitude of an entire generation of people from a variety of nations and backgrounds who loved liberty, came not to conquer, but to liberate.  They arrived to set the feet of the enslaved nations of Europe back on the path of freedom--to rescue them from tyranny and to place back into their hands the gift of self-determination, the opportunity to pursue their own dreams according to the dictates of their own consciences.

But, as it has been said, "Freedom is a system based on courage."  It is a precious gift--one that we cannot simply acknowledge with some expression of gratitude and set it aside and ignore it ever after.  It requires, indeed it demands our care and attention.  It demands our service, our own toil and sacrifice to keep it shining brightly that we may pass it on to others undimmed.

It is likewise eternally under attack by those who are inherently evil, those who desire power over the lives of others and to lay claim to the fruits of their labors.  It is also weakened by the lazy and cowardly who, while not necessarily seeking its destruction, can't be bothered to exert any effort in its preservation.  They are likewise disinclined to reject the proffer of the wealth of others in exchange for doing nothing.

So it is that I usually express some hope at this time of year that we will never forget the bravery of those who fought on D-Day and beyond--the toil and sacrifices of the generation that bravely fought to rid the world of tyranny and oppression. But the world has already largely forgotten not only those people and those times, but more importantly, the principles that guided them in their struggle.

We have allowed the enemy that they soundly defeated then, to occupy the halls of our government here and now. Fascists, Marxists, socialists--enemies of liberty one and all-- now occupy our institutions of higher education, the media and all levels of government. It falls now to us to uphold the legacy of the "Greatest Generation." Let us finish the work they so nobly began and rid ourselves--once and for all-- of these tyrants and usurpers!!

We CANNOT allow this nation that they sacrificed their all to defend to quietly slip into the shadow of despotism without a fight!  It seems to me that the following may echo the sentiments of our fathers who served and triumphed before us:

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"Yea, as one generation passeth to another there shall be bloodsheds, and great visitations among them; wherefore, my sons, I would that ye would remember; yea, I would that ye would hearken unto my words.
"O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe.
"Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words of a trembling parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the cold and silent grave
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"And now that my soul might have joy in you, and that my heart might leave this world with gladness because of you, that I might not be brought down with grief and sorrow to the grave, arise from the dust, my sons, and be men, and be determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things, that ye may not come down into captivity;" (2 Ne. 1:12-14, 21.)

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We must find a way to restore the nobility of soul and character that were so commonplace a few decades ago.  We have been divided along a variety of lines except those that should rightly divide us.  We have allowed ourselves to be divided by lines of race, religion, political party, etc.  The only lines that should divide us is that between liberty and tyranny.  America has been a bastion for liberty and the gem of liberty has been handed to us gleaming brightly by hands that have been soiled, cut, bruised and scarred by labor and war.  It has been set ever so gently into our soft, uncalloused hands by our fathers and it has become tarnished almost beyond recognition. 


Those who now glut themselves on the labor of a once free nation are an affront to the principles of our founders and our fathers.  The time is upon us to unite as free people and, under the framework provided us by our founders, rid ourselves of all those who make themselves kings and lords over us.  I am convinced that the unchangeable Being that was found to be an ally of those brave souls who landed on the French beaches those long years ago is likewise allied with those who love liberty here and now.  With such an Ally, we cannot fail.  But we must prove worthy of His company. 

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! 

~ The Star-spangled Banner