Did You Remember?

[LincolnToddFan]

Yes Laurie, I have been watching the commemorations online and on the news all week. It's making me very emotional. Soon these men and women will all be gone as they are-quite literally-a rapidly dying breed.

On CNN last Thursday there was a TV special. A Mississippian
who landed at Omaha Beach came back to the American military cemetery in Normandy to locate the grave of his commanding officer, a New Yorker who didn't make it. The aged Southerner stood at the marker of his dead Yankee commander and cried and cried. It was so moving that I cried with him. It's moments like those that make me so grateful that our country was not allowed to splinter and that it remained ONE nation after 1865.

I believe in Providence.

Tom Brokaw was never more correct than when he coined the WWII generation The Greatest Generation. The men who landed on that beach KNEW they were more than likely going to be slaughtered and yet they jumped.

I still can't wrap my mind around their courage.