D-Day, When Service Was Not Questioned

Wesley Captain guards a
concentration camp

Today, people all over the world will honor those who began what President Obama declares is "democracy's beachhead."

You can be sure that those who served, those who became POWS, never had their service questioned.

It's not like that anymore.

Republicans will do and say almost anything.

One man who served is the late Wesley Captain of Wisconsin Rapids.

Like 100,000s who liberated Europe, Captain landed at Normandy, and then ended up in Patton's Third Army.

In his service Captain helped liberate a concentration camp.

He never came back the same.

No one, not even a Republican, would dare question his service.

Today, Republicans are the White Party of nihilism.

Normandy - 65 Years

Update: Obama marks D-Day's 65th anniversary at Omaha Beach, France. "Don't forget ... ."

Today is June 6.

My girlfriend still talks about her late father and his service in World War II to defeat Nazis and fascists.

And from both of our parents (my father was a veteran recruited by the CIA but he went to grad school instead and had me), we grew up hearing of the society-wide, shared sacrifice.

War profiteers, they were a pariah. Not like when they were protected by the Bush administration.

Not like the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Lieberman-Neocon crowd doing their big con as 1o,000s come home dead, wounded, traumatized - different people - all for the lies of the policymakers; and Lieberman crowing for years that Iraq is "...the test of our generation." What a lying coward.

I post some World War II artifacts above that my girlfriend and her family treasure. Somehow, looking at them brings forth the truth of the World War II sacrifice and honor by mostly scared kids, in opposition to the imbecility and cowardice of the crowd of warmakers and liars, mostly but not exclusively in the Republican Party.

No one had the swagger and casualness of George W. Bush when it came time to ask for the ultimate sacrifice of real people and their loved ones.