As some of you may know, 63 years ago today was D-Day. It is a day that we should never forget. Millions of people owe their lives and freedom to those soldiers. However, one thing that many people do not know is that 749 America soldiers lost their lives in a single training exercise in preparation of the D-Day invasion. Yes, you read that correctly; they died while practicing the invasion landing.

I find myself wondering how different the war would have turned out if that eras society had the same mentality that it does today. Let’s imagine that what happened 64 years ago were happening now, the same people we have now, would still be around, but instead of being in the middle of the the war in Iraq, we were in the middle of WWII. Would Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in the training exercise, have called the whole invasion plan a travesty and demanded that we retreat immediately and that all soldiers return home? Would Hillary Clinton, who, was for the war when Japan invaded Pearl Harbor, have flip-flopped when we lost ship after ship to the German U-boats? Would CNN emphasize that according to some estimates one in 26 Merchant Marines were loosing their lives?

We can only be grateful that these people were not around during WWII. Had WWII’s society had the same mentality that society does now, would we have given up the war and retreated when things were not going as well as everyone hoped? If so, would the D-Day invasion have never happened. German could have been the national language of France. Marxism and Nazi-ism would have spread all over the world. We should be get down on our knees and thank God that it didn’t happend that way. Maybe we should then look back in history and see that giving up and retreating never amounted to anything good; staying the course only maintained our freedom and brought that freedom to others.

Well, those are my two cents. I would love to you to post yours. Feel free to post your comments.