Memorial Day weekend is a time to salute the stellar women and men of our nation who have served in our armed forces and who’ve died in battle to preserve our freedom.
Having visited Normandy, France a few years ago, D-Day and the courage and heroism of the US troops that landed on those beaches, resonates with me in a special way.
On June 6, 1944, more than 70,000 young American men of the greatest generation, stormed Omaha and Utah beaches in the largest air, land and sea invasion in history,
More than 2500 of them were killed, more than 5,000 were wounded.
You may think you know what took place on D-Day from movies like The Longest Day or Band of Brothers, but until you visit Normandy, you cannot possibly grasp the enormity of their bravery and fortitude.
The troops were transported toward Omaha and Utah in their Higgins boats. Some of the boats made it close to the beach, but others came under heavy fire and had to discharge their fighters, with their 70 pounds of gear, in choppy, treacherous seas.
They struggled mightily to make it ashore, while the Germans, entrenched in their cement fortifications from atop the cliffs and steep bluffs, rained savage fire down upon them. Nevertheless, the GI’s eventually prevailed and established a beachhead on that narrow stretch of sand.
When you visit Omaha Beach, you see with your own eyes how incredibly difficult that feat was.
And when you visit the American cemetery nearby, the enormity of the slaughter that took place on that fateful day, the magnitude of that battle and of the sacrifice made by those courageous young Americans, is still so visibly raw. It’s still so real.
The graves of nearly 9,400 Americans who died during the allied liberation of France, are neatly aligned in that cemetery, row after row, as far as the eye can see, marked by white crosses and stars of David.
Every evening, a solemn flag lowering ceremony takes place where the mournful sound of Taps echoes over the hallowed ground and the American flag is lovingly and painstakingly folded and put away for the night. It raises the hairs on the back of your neck and brings tears to your eyes.
Compare those magnificent patriots who gave their lives in the battle against evil, with the entitled, anti-American punks, adorned in their cookie-cutter keffiyehs, with their ugliness hidden behind their masks, who disrupted college graduation ceremonies this past week. Those America haters, those Jew haters are delinquents who want to tear down the United States, certainly not to fight for it.
The anti-Jewish rhetoric of those brats who bellow for a free, free Palestine has become so normalized, it was shouted by the alleged killer of two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC this past Wednesday. Those hate-filled words have now become weaponized and they’ve led to two magnificent young people being murdered. The alleged killer told police, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”
In fact, he did it because he probably thought Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were Jewish and Israeli, and that’s all that mattered. They deserved to be killed. In fact, Yaron was an Israeli Christian and Sarah was an American from Kansas.
Those anarchists, those insurrectionists, these murderers advocate for a global intifada. They champion terror and death, but when they’re led away to police buses in zip ties they yelp and whimper like mongrel dogs.
Their fifteen minutes of fame should have run out by now, but they’ve been pandered to and pampered by university administrators and progressive politicians. They have been given way too much oxygen by a video ravenous news media.
On this Memorial Day weekend, let’s choose to unfocus on those zeroes, and instead pay huge homage to our heroes. Let’s unfocus on those who want to drag down our society. Instead, let’s focus on all those who selflessly serve in our armed forces and who take the noble oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
And let’s also focus on the women and men of the Israel Defense Forces who have been battling genocidal terrorists on multiple fronts. Even though some weak-kneed, decaying democracies now decry them and want to shut them down, their righteous fight is our fight as well.
On this Memorial Day, 2025, thank you to all the world’s fighters for freedom and to their families. I do not take their service and their sacrifices for granted and neither should you.