D-Day With The Queen

I hesitate to post on the 75^thAnniversary of D-Day; so much has already been said.  But I cannot let it pass.

Those who reinvaded Europe on D-Day were amazing and courageous.  And so many of them lost their lives for the freedom of the West.

To have served in World War 2 and to have survived to this day is also amazing.  Few can say that now.  Not many are still living.

But one of them is The Queen.  And she seems able and willing to outlive us all!

I enjoyed her brief speech today, particularly when she said in her typically understated way the equivalent of “I’m still here.”

God bless the souls of those who served and have passed on as well as those few who remain.  And God save The Queen!

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Housekeeping:

Due to a flood of spam comments, I with regret have restricted comments to only google users at least for a time.

I hope a better way to stop the spam arises as I want to post any legitimate comment from anyone.  Advice is welcome.

More Housekeeping: The previous video link went dead, do I posted a better one.

“Thank God for the Atom Bomb”

This is a bit off-topic even for me.  But I have come across an excellent compilation of refutations of those who say dropping The Bomb on Japan was wrong.

I welcome the explanations of anyone who thinks a ground invasion of Japan would have been better.  Go ahead, have at it in the comments.  But it would not have been better.  It would have been worse, much worse, for both sides with perhaps a million Americans dead and God knows how many Japanese.  And those who would have done the invading were far, far more aware of that than scholars since pontificating from academia.

And as for the puerile thinking that Japan was the victim here, how can one dare say that in light of widespread and systematic Japanese war crimes?  Some Japanese politicians like to sweep those under the rug.  We should not help them do so with vomitous moral equivalence idiocy.

In any case, before I get a really good rant going, go read for yourself.  I will be charitable and just say if you think dropping The Bomb was wrong, then you are wrong.