| deacon blues |
06-06-2007 03:52 PM |
D-Day Remembered
63 years ago our young men stormed the beaches of Normandy alongside British and Canadian forces as the largest armada in the history of world crossed the English channel and opened a third front in the European theater against Hitler's Nazi forces. It would prove to be the beginning of the end of the fascists. Within a year Hitler would commit suicide, France, Holland, Belgium and dozens of other nations were liberated from the butchery of the murderous Nazis.
Thousands of our men sacrificed their lives in the months that followed June 6, 1944. My uncle Lawrence Edge died in January 1945 during the clean up work following the Battle of the Bulge. Today there is a bridge in southeast Oklahoma dedicated in his honor on Highway 75 between Tulsa and Dallas. I honor his memory.
I also salute Brother Bill Gale from Newark, OH who was in the first wave of troops at Normandy and survived. He is still alive today serving God and faithfully attending Christian Apostolic Church under the leadership of Pastor Keith Sjostrand.
With the greatest struggle of the 20th century in view, may we remember the men and women who are in uniform protecting us around the world from a growing cloud of evil that much like in the 1930s and 40s sought to destroy the freedom loving peoples of the world and usher in a global dominance that would strip every constitutional liberty away from every American.
I honor the ones who have perished. I pray for those still engaged in the struggle of good vs. evil.
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