The 75th Anniversary of D-Day
SO YOU WANT to GO to WAR?
____ Fine, But First Try To Answer These Questions
How does it feel to be cut in half
_____ by a sudden burst of machine gun bullets?
What does it feel like at the precise moment
_____ when a bullet enters your eye, and pierces your brain?
Can you imagine having your lower jaw smashed by bullets
_____ and then see its bloody, splintered fragments
__________ drop to the ground ?
What is it like to take a direct hit to the skull?
_____ Would you know that you were dead?
What sensations must a person feel
_____ as his body is being consumed by fire?
What might be the thoughts of someone
_____ just thrown to the ground and kicked,
__________ whose hands have been tied behind his back,
who then gets chained by his heels
_____ to the rear end of a vehicle
__________ about to drag his still-healthy, still-unbroken
_______________ young body over stones, gravel,
____________________ dirt and thorny stubble?
How does it feel to have the flesh ripped off your cheeks?
_____ To have all the flesh on your hands torn off
__________ exposing bones and tendons?
How does it feel to have grit and gravel
_____ embed themselves in your eyes?
How does it feel to be torn
_____ limb from limb by a jeering mob?
Exactly how does it feel to have your head
_____ stomped to jelly by hobnailed boots?
Or your genitalia ripped out by the roots
_____ and stuffed into your screaming mouth?
How does it feel to be smart enough to realize
_____ you are suffering and dying for the sole purpose
__________ of lining the pockets of international bankers,
_______________ global industrialists and the suppliers
____________________ of war materiel with gold?
Exactly how would you react to being held down
_____ and having your teeth kicked down your throat,
__________ your eyes gouged out,
_______________ your ears and your nose sliced off,
____________________ or a glass rod inserted in your urethra
_________________________ and then smashed to pulver?
How would you feel when you are forced to eat
_____ ground glass or drink hydrochloric acid?
How would you feel if you were sodomized by barbarians
_____ then buried up to your neck in sand
__________ and systematically stoned and kicked to death?
How does it feel to be held down and deliberately blinded by acid?
How does it feel to be maimed by “Friendly Fire?
How does it feel to be flayed alive
_____ and then slowly cut to ribands?
How does it feel to forced to kneel before your captors,
_____ hands tied behind your back
__________ while you wait to have your head hacked off
_______________ by a hand held knife?
How? How? How?
But much more important is
WHY?
__________ WHY?
____________________ WHY?
FreeThinke
How, when we need to ask questions like this now more than ever, could we imagine even for a moment we have no need for the healing power and redeeming grace of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?
It has to be frustrating. First they lose a FIXED election then they thought there wasn’t a chance in hell that they’d lose. , then they fail on a sure bet “Collusion” investigation, and now it seems as if they are failing to get the Impeachment they have been praying for, and working for, and that they wanted so much that they were able to smell it.
ReplyDeleteThe Economy is Booming, their 25 or so Candidates can’t even come together on the Impeachment decision They’d rather spend 2-3 or more years desperately, and endlessly trying for impeachment, then trying to make America Great Again.
At the level of mental breakdown we're seeing now in the Socialist Democratic party, if, and when Trump wins reelection there won't be enough Popcorn in all the world for me to enjoy the aftermath.
It’s going to be lots of fun watching Robert di Nero, and Alec Bladwin. Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and the other Brain Surgeons jumping off the Sky Scrapers.
Yes, sure, but I can't see how this relates in any way to the subject of THIS post which involves the 75th anniversary of D-Day, and a poetic catalogue of many of the worst horrors one may encounter in war.
DeleteI wish you'd cime back, READ the POST, LOOK at the PICTURES,, and and at east TRY to comment on what we have presented hrtr today.
'Snowflake' is a term used to describe someone who is extremely easy to offend....and who is most often offended by anything and everything the President or opposing party does or says.
DeleteBut it wasn’t that way on June 6th 1944, when 6,600 American Soldiers were killed on that day alone. During the invasion of Normandy let’s not forget those Brave Americans who helped change the world.
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ReplyDeleteJuly?
DeleteSorry, Of course it was June
DeleteGood post Franco, and let us never forget what they did for us. our Nation and the world.
ReplyDeleteAnd good reply Debonair Dude, those Brave Americans really did change the world
I wouldn't put it quite that way, Darth. It has been the AGGRESSORS –– like the Bolsheviks, Mao tse Dung,Hitler, et al. who CHANGE the world –– and always for the worse.
DeleteOUR role in the two World Wars was to SAVE what was left of the the world, and do our best to prevent FURTHER destructive change.
Unfortunately, since the end of WWII, in the hypocritical guise of "SAVIOR" we have become aggressors, ourselves, and so the rottenness persists and metastasizes.
Yes, this week will be the 75th Anniversary of Normandy the US lead the invasion of Europe that would finally defeat Hitler ten moths later
ReplyDeleteGod bless them. What the troops went though on those beaches is truly amazing.
God Bless them all, and God Bless those who never came back home
We should thank the Good Lord that we didn't have a president like Obama back then or the D-Day plans would have been leaked to the Germans long before D-Day ever happened.
ReplyDeleteNo, but we had FDR who regarded Josef Stalin, –– one of the greatest and cruelest mass murderers of all time ––, with affection, and referred to him as "Uncle Joe." FDR, who was responsible for introducing SOCIALISM into our government via the NEW DEAL, regarded the evil COMMUNISTS as our allies.
DeleteI doubt Obama did anything worse that that, yet we are taught to REVERE FDR to this day, just as we are taught now to VILIFY Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy and Rchard Nixon.
Don't you ye trealize we've been subjected to Government OF the ENEMEDIA, - BY the NEMESIA, - and FOR the ENEMEDIA since long before most of us were born?
The roots of the SJBVERSION to which we've been subjected since the early dats of the twentieth-century go very deep.
Wha we suffer with today is the result of a long, slow, relentless campaign that began SEDUCTIVELY by STEALTH but has now blossomed forth as a ferocious, mega-headed CHIMERA –– a real life JABBERWOCK, if you will, –– a frumious BANDERSNATCH. A monster with nothing fanciful, mythical, comical, childish or endearing about it
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
ReplyDeleteAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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ReplyDeleteWars will continue as long as lust for power and material wealth drives human motivation and behavoir.
ReplyDeleteAnother vapid comment from the clown prince of banalities.
DeletePlease refrain from making personal remarks aimed at fellow bloggers.
DeleteWat you do elsewhere is not our business, but we aim for a higher standard HERE.
Thank you.
“Material Wealth”. Where the HELL. Did you get that from?
ReplyDeleteHave you never heard of the Military-Industrial Complex?
DeletePresident EISENHOWER warned us against it as he was leaving office in 1960.
There's oodles of money to be made from the manufacture of war materiel,
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ReplyDeletemagine if no citizen of any country would join the military and if forcibly inducted, refused to fight once forcibly taken to the battlefield and played poker with the enemy instead ? Let the leaders of countries fight it out. No doubt it would generally improve the gene pool.
ReplyDeleteUp the crag in the screaming wind
ReplyDeleteNaked and bleeding I fought blind.
On I moved towards the Eye of the Sun.
Pst the cromlech I found a gun.
Then I strayed in the cities of men
In the hme of my love I found a pen.
~ Anonymous
This is why war should be the last resort.
ReplyDeleteAnd certainly we should, insofar as possible, avoid foreign entanglements.
The above said, People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell
Charles Cameron Stackhouse said:
DeleteIt looks like it could be th right time time for another worldwide conflagration. There is so much dead wood in the world that needs most desperately to be thinned out and burned away. More than half the people aren't fit to Iive anymore.
Do you include yourself in that half? Inquiring minds want to know.
DeleteRat Bastard Nation USSR and his reeking pile trite bullshit needs to go on that flaming bonfire.
DeleteHas Rat Bastard Nation USSR ever expresses an original thought or typed out a phrase not sodden with shopworn banalities and trite fluff?
Please, whoever you are, this is neither the time nor place to stage s Denigration Derby.
DeleteWe should be here to honorthe memory of those incredibly brave men –– and they WERE, indeed, MEN not WOMEN –– who waded, marched, parachuted, and glided into HELL so that WE might be free to enjoy our lives in peace and express ourselves as we choose.
With that in mind, however, don't you think we OWE it to those wonderful men to do our best to be WORTHY of the immense scarifice THEY made on OUR behalf?
PLEASE let us not WASTE any more of our precious waking hours sniping and jeering at each other.
The proper question to have asked Mr. Rational Nation would simply have been, "And to which of the two halves do you believe YOU belong, sir?"
DeletePlease try something a little bit subtler next time if you insist on playing Thrust and Parry –– pursuit I, personally, have come to see as a waste of time.
Going to Heaven!
ReplyDeleteI don't know when
Pray do not ask me how!
Indeed I'm too astonished
To think of answering you!
Going to Heaven!
How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done
As sure as flocks go home at night
Unto the Shepherd's arm!
Perhaps you're going too!
Who knows?
If you should get there first
Save just a little space for me
Close to the two I lost
The smallest "Robe" will fit me
And just a bit of "Crown"
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home
I'm glad I don't believe it
For it would stop my breath
And I'd like to look a little more
At such a curious Earth!
I'm glad they did believe it
Whom I have never found
Since the mighty Autumn afternoon
I left them in the ground.
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers ––
Delete___ untouched by Morning
______ and untouched by Noon ––
Sleep the meek Members
___ of the Resurrection ––
Rafter of Satin
___ and Roof of Stone.
Light laughs the Breeze
–– in her Castle of Sunshine ––
Babble the Bee ––
___ in a stolid Ear.
Pipe the sweet Birds
___ in ignorant Cadence
Ah! what Sagacity
___ perished here!
Grand go the Years
___ in the Cresent above them ––
Worlds scoop their Arcs
___ and Firmaments row ––
Diadems drop,
___ and Doges surrender ––
___ ___ soundless as Dots
________ on a Disc of Snow.
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
____ The Darkling Thrush ___
ReplyDeleteI leant upon a coppice gate
___ When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
___ The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
___ Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
___ Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
___ The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
___ The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
___ Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
___ Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
___ The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
___ Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
___ In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
___ Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
___ Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
___ Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
___ His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
___ And I was unaware.
~ Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
__ The Cold Earth Slept Below __
ReplyDeleteThe cold earth slept below;
____ Above the cold sky shone;
______ And all around,
______ With a chilling sound,
From caves of ice and fields of snow
The breath of night like death did flow
______ Beneath the sinking moon.
The wintry hedge was black;
____ The green grass was not seen;
______ The birds did rest
______ On the bare thorn’s breast,
Whose roots, beside the pathway track,
Had bound their folds o’er many a crack
______ Which the frost had made between.
Thine eyes glow’d in the glare
____ Of the moon’s dying light;
______ As a fen-fire’s beam
______ On a sluggish stream
Gleams dimly—so the moon shone there,
And it yellow’d the strings of thy tangled hair,
______ That shook in the wind of night.
The moon made thy lips pale, beloved;
____ The wind made thy bosom chill;
______ The night did shed
______ On thy dear head
Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie
Where the bitter breath of the naked sky
______ Might visit thee at will.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
__ The Holy Enfant __
ReplyDeleteBorn in a manger
___ a low start in life
Given to see
___ that no one is alone
Ill-fated child
___ destined only for Grief
The Star disappeared
___ Herod killed not the One
But hundreds of others
___ God saved Him for us.
He was to show us
___ that we could be saved
Be happy and free
___ from all animus.
But we work to kill Him
___ we are so depraved
God loves us. ’Tis we
__ are the ones who destroy.
Each trust betrayed
___ each gift that is spurned
Is a stab in the heart
___ of an Innocent Boy
But, we’ll all feel the agony
___ all we have learned:
He suffered the Cross
___ to bring height to our goals
______ light to our minds
_________ and flight to our souls.
~ FreeThinke
_______ RELUCTANCE _______
ReplyDeleteOut through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
~ Robert Frost (1874-1963)
A REMINDER OF WHY WE FOUGHT AND SACRIFICED SO MANY LIVES. LOVE OF FREEDOM and LOVE OF COUNTRY. WITHOUT THOSE THINGS WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD ANYWAY.
ReplyDelete_____ AMERICA _____
1. My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
2. My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills.
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
3. Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
4. Our fathers' God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light.
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
Text: Samuel F. Smith, 1808-1895
Music: From Thesaurus Musicus, London, 1744 [known in England as “God Bless Our Native Land” here in the United States as “America”]
When was the last time yu heard anyone sing that? I can't remember the ;ast time, myself, and yet when I was in school we used to sing it ALL the TIME.
God bless all who fought, especally those who died to preserve our sovereignty and our ideals, but they will have sacrificed in VAIN, if WE fail to do what we MUST in order to remau WORTHY of their great sacrifice.
England lost its brightest, best-looking, bravest, smartest men in World War 2, and it shows, even today.
ReplyDeleteAnd... the British Military would be shite without the Scotsmen, witho' nae Scotsmen there would be no Britain!
DeleteMuch of that goes back to World War One, Angus.
DeleteI have nothing aginst the scots. My paternal grandmother was Scottish, herself, and my father's people grated here from Cornwall c. 1630, so my own Celtic roots are very dar to me, BUT I think we must credit Winstn churchill, whose moter was AMERICAN, and the USA, itself with saving britain as much as anyone or anything.
But England is no longer ENGLAND since she began her Oen Door policy to hordes of NIN-WHITES from former colonies and also MOSLEMS. Permitting the likes of SDQ KHAN to be elected Mayor of London give Great Britain the coup de grace..
One Queen Elizabeth, II, passes on England will be no more.
The outrage and the sadness of this is hideous to contemplate on the SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of D-DAY where 160,000 troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and parachuted in behind German lines. Allied casualties were huge, but the Allies managed to prevail.
Looking at the pitiful spectacle England has made of herself isince the Allied Victory it's too easy to believe those tens of thousands of brave men suffered unimagineable agonies to save the world from tyranny ultimately died in vain.
A tiny gathering of protesters made their way to Portsmouth to demonstrate against Donald Trump, after hundreds of thousands of people failed to turn out in London.
ReplyDeleteContext?
DeleteSources?
Was this in connection with the official observance of the 75th Anniversary of D-Day?
___ THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ___
ReplyDeleteFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate –– we can not consecrate –– we can not hallow –– this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ––that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion –– that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain –– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom –– and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
First presented November 19, 1863
THOUGH I, PERSONALLY, HAVE COME TO HOLD ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN LOW ESTEEM, THESE TIMELESS WORDS OF HIS MAKE AS FITTING A TRBUTE TO THOSE WHO DIED, WERE CRIPPLED, OR HOPELESSLY MAIMED DURING THE D-DAY INVASION OF NORMANDY AS ANY WRITTEN BEFORE OR SINCE.
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