A generation of Americans both in uniform and on the home front that saved our future from sheer evil. 16 million stepped forward to fight.
A generation of Americans both in uniform and on the home front that saved our future from sheer evil. 16 million stepped forward to fight.
My Dad fought in the infantry in Italy. An uncle commanded an infantry Bn in the Bulge. An uncle was in antiaircraft in the Bulge. An uncle served on a torpedoed cruiser in the Pacific. My wife’s dad made 3 combat jumps with the 11th Abn Div. SERVICE.
@mccaffreyr3 @BeschlossDC Here's my vivid reminder of what Memorial Day is all about. This was my Mom's cousin from Nevada,Ohio and I found it in her B&W photo album. Imagine how many times he dodged bullets and death before his luck ran out.
@mccaffreyr3 @BeschlossDC My father was one of them .
@mccaffreyr3 Amen. Thank you for your extraordinary service. I bless those who serve and have served. But I fear generational forgetting - of sacrifice and of the high stakes ahead.
@mccaffreyr3 Most poignant memory of my life was walking those beaches in Normandy as a child with my father on the 30th anniversary of D-Day and then the cemeteries with the names of so many fallen soldiers on Crosses and Stars of David dated June 6, 7, and 8. Truly searing.
@mccaffreyr3 @BeschlossDC My uncle Albert Owen Rowe killed July 7 1944. Buried in the Netherlands. Plane was shot down.
@mccaffreyr3 And now, sadly, many of the children and grandchildren of those brave Americans are willing to throw it all away for an authoritarian.