If anyone out there doubts that the men of the Military never held a job.....have a lesson to learn. They never considered it a job, for
them it was a duty....underpaid, and in the eyes of some in D.C.
unheralded.
I was with my husband at the 50th Anniversary Celebration on the
Beaches of Normandy. The people of Normandy know well what all
the men of the D-Day Landing did for them and they teach in their
schools to honor these men. My husband's dental hygienist didn't know what D-Day was!! But at one of the American Military Cemeteries I saw a french schoolbus with children, 7,8,9-years old,
being told by their teachers what went on 50+ years ago.
The Americans who were there also heard the crowd at one of these beach celebrations
boo, and I mean boo, our President. While the media printed pictures of Clinton spreading shells in the shape of a cross on the sands of Normandy, the media totally avoided the episode at the beach celebration. I was there folks, I heard it. And to this day, never a mention in the press, on the radio, or on TV. But the Normandy citizens heard it all.
I was seated in one of the enormous Tents errected on the beaches for the celebration....three rows back from the then Senator Dole and everyone around him stood and clapped their hands off for "one of their own". These two events happening within a few minutes of each other, "kinda "said it all.
The boo was in response to the announcement that our Prez would
be late to the affair. The soldier came back on the mike to announce, "Folks, I'm only the messenger." Another very loud
clapping, this time for the messenger.
Clinton made all the French dignitaries late to the next affair up the beach where the British were honoring their military men on their D-Day Beach.
The people of Normandy have a very high regard for all the men
who saved their country, although, I think at times the Parisians
make it hard for us to believe
My husband was one of the paratroopers who landed in the fields,
pastures, orchards and churchyards of Normandy, and our return visit
was one of the most rewarding for him and the tight-knit group of
remaining veterans of that massive American effort to right what
we as a Nation came to believe was wrong.
Sorry to make this so long....but perhaps at holidaytime, more folks
have time to read through it all.
G.M. The Grandmother in the mountains........ who really did have a great holiday, with a really great husband, in a GREAT country...and I hope you all hung out our Great Flag. |
