D-Day OD

[MorningStar]

D-Day OD
Why World War II nostalgia has gone too far.
By David Greenberg
Posted Friday, June 4, 2004, at 9:32 AM PT
slate.msn.com/id/2101752/

This year's onslaught of D-Day hype—a continuous barrage of World War II nostalgia stretching from Memorial Day weekend through George Bush's trip to Europe these next few days—has already exhausted all but the most diehard buffs. Newsmagazines splash gritty old photos of GIs from the Good War and marked-up invasion maps across their glossy pages. Historians from Martin Gilbert to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have published books exalting soldierly valor. In various speeches George Bush links the siege of Normandy to the siege of Baghdad in what he portrays as one seamless American mission. Building on the mythmaking efforts of past presidents, and with the ready help of the media, Bush has spun a simple tale of American bravery in defense of democracy—of a golden moment when ordinary Yankee sons began the liberation of foreign peoples solely because they believed in freedom.

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[genesda]

MorningStar said:

D-Day OD
Why World War II nostalgia has gone too far.
By David Greenberg
Posted Friday, June 4, 2004, at 9:32 AM PT
slate.msn.com/id/2101752/

This year's onslaught of D-Day hype—a continuous barrage of World War II nostalgia stretching from Memorial Day weekend through George Bush's trip to Europe these next few days—has already exhausted all but the most diehard buffs. Newsmagazines splash gritty old photos of GIs from the Good War and marked-up invasion maps across their glossy pages. Historians from Martin Gilbert to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have published books exalting soldierly valor. In various speeches George Bush links the siege of Normandy to the siege of Baghdad in what he portrays as one seamless American mission. Building on the mythmaking efforts of past presidents, and with the ready help of the media, Bush has spun a simple tale of American bravery in defense of democracy—of a golden moment when ordinary Yankee sons began the liberation of foreign peoples solely because they believed in freedom.

It's more than a "simple tale of american bravery".
If it wasn't for those GI's, you might be speaking German today.
We owe those who won that war an undying gratitude that should be relived and remembered with more than just a holiday. People died defending the freedoms you use today. They stopped Hitler before he could develop the atomic bomb. Where would you be if Hitler got the bomb first?
If american history were taught in the school system today as it happened without revisions , you might have a better understanding of the events of those times.
The liberal education system is failing the students today but is marching us on to communism which is where the new atheist/communist party is rooted.
I believe "liberalism" is the new code word for communists. If you doubt, just examine what liberalism teaches, not what the candidates say, and then decide.
Look at the actions of liberal judges, teachers and politicians closely and then tell me they are not trying to undermine the U.S. Constitution.

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[marysia]

d-day -- it happened - many of the people that were there are still alive today - we shouldn't honour them? if the media is taking things to far then turn to them. when clinton was all over the news with monica - did you shout it was too much, how about the OJ trial. i would rather hear about d-day than those (and other media claptraps) anyday.

maybe some of the differences is for those families who lost someone in WWII or know someone who it living now from WWII. look at the reality of what those men did - maybe it's too hard for some to realize that today we are selfish and spoiled. back then it was country God and family, not me myself and I.

those men allowed us to live as we do and be who we are - God bless them!

so should we not honour people when they are among the living? should people wait until the 100 anniversary when they are all dead - i don't think so.

[MorningStar]

I wish people would try to read the whole article before they respond to seey it wasn't a dig at the vets rather than just blaming the Liberals.