{"id":2261667,"date":"2024-06-06T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-day-from-the-greatest-generation-to-the-most-obnoxious-generation\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T18:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:28:26","slug":"d-day-from-the-greatest-generation-to-the-most-obnoxious-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-day-from-the-greatest-generation-to-the-most-obnoxious-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day: From Heroes to Zeroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-day-from-the-greatest-generation-to-the-most-obnoxious-generation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2261667&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The 80th anniversary of \u2063D-Day on June\u2064 6, 2024, commemorates Allied efforts in WWII. The U.S. casualties stood at 552,117, with \u200b104,812 deaths. D-Day was a pivotal event leading to the end of the war in Europe. America&#8217;s \u200bintervention \u2064prevented German domination, showcasing\u200d the heroes of the Greatest\u200d Generation in a fight for freedom and democracy. The 80th\u2063 anniversary of D-Day, on June \u200d6, 2024, \u2062is a tribute \u2063to\u2063 the Allied contributions in World War II. With\u200c 552,117 U.S. casualties and 104,812 deaths, D-Day was a crucial turning point in ending the European war. America&#8217;s involvement thwarted German dominance, honoring the heroes of the Greatest Generation in their \u2063struggle for liberty and\u2063 democracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the storming of Normandy on D-Day. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States and its allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Between that date and the end of the war in the European theater, there were 552,117 U.S. casualties; 104,812 Americans were killed in action. On D-Day alone, some 2,501 Americans were killed.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why was the war necessary? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know this seems like a stupid question, but there are many people today who don\u2019t understand why the war was necessary. It was b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ecause the Nazis were, in fact, an evil regime hell-bent on global domination, with the imposition of their vile system of government and supremacist ideology on the globe. And as we know, World War II also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-daunte-wright-was-wanted-for-robbing-and-choking-a-woman-at-gunpoint-heres-why-that-matters\/\" title=\"WALSH: Daunte Wright Was Wanted For Robbing And Choking A Woman At Gunpoint. Here\u2019s Why That Matters.\">led directly<\/a> into the next righteous war, the Cold War, wherein the US-led Free World squared off against the Soviet Union, another evil empire.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Americans saved the world. It is that simple. Had America not intervened in World War II, the end would have been German domination of the European continent. It was American naval resupply of the United Kingdom that allowed the United Kingdom to survive the German Navy\u2019s attempted blockade of the island nation. Upon learning that the U.S. was entering the war, Winston Churchill later wrote, \u201cBeing saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If the U.S. had not entered the war \u2014 if the U.S. had remained truly neutral \u2014 the United Kingdom would have been blockaded into submission. The Nazis would have cast their eyes east, at the Soviet Union, and poured resources into its submission. After a period of reconsolidation and strengthening, Hitler\u2019s Navy would have extended its sphere of influence across the Atlantic, particularly south and toward Latin America. Meanwhile, America would have continued to face the threat of the Japanese in the Pacific.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1980-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May 1941, FDR laid out the stakes of the conflict between the United States and Germany \u2014 months before the United States entered the war. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/radio-address-announcing-unlimited-national-emergency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nazi world does not recognize any God except Hitler; for the Nazis are as ruthless as the Communists in the denial of God. What place has religion which preaches the dignity of the human being, the majesty of the human soul, in a world where moral standards are measured by treachery and bribery and fifth columnists? Will our children, too, wander off, goose-stepping in search of new gods?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States entered the war on December 7, 1941, with Pearl Harbor. Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. It took three years for the United States and its allies to put themselves in position for the liberation of the European continent across the English channel. Historians at the U.S. Naval Institute suggest that there needed to be four preconditions to a successful amphibious invasion of France:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Naval superiority in the English Channel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Air superiority over the landing beaches and well inland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enough troops to establish a beachhead and then match the enemy\u2019s subsequent buildup<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enough shipping and landing craft to carry the troops to the landing points and reinforce them as required<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Churchill believed the last two conditions were not fulfilled in 1943, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/naval-history-magazine\/2019\/june\/d-day-year-too-late\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">writing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do not believe that 27 Anglo-American divisions are sufficient for Overlord [the name for the D-Day invasion] in view of the extraordinary fighting efficiency of the German Army and the much larger forces they could so readily bring to bear against our troops even if the landings were successfully accomplished.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That had changed by 1944. It was go-time for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States and their allies landed on D-Day. Casualties from these countries during the landing numbered 10,300. By June 30, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eisenhower famously issued a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/general-eisenhowers-order-of-the-day\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to the troops as D-Day was about to happen. He wrote: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Notice the language: no embarrassment about the use of Christian terminology. He continued:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-launching-an-investigation-into-big-tech-censorship-heres-why\/\" title=\"I\u2019m Launching An Investigation Into Big Tech Censorship. Here\u2019s Why.\">liberty-loving people<\/a> everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good Luck! Let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Notice the kind of language that is used, the language that has been completely lacking in the West pretty much since World War II, the language of total victory, the moral wherewithal to declare the moral superiority of the United States and its allies in the fight.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FDR went on the radio the night of D-Day, and he issued a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/prayer-d-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prayer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Here is a part of it:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer: <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What exactly were the United States and our allies hoping to preserve? First and foremost, the interests of the United States and a free West, the religion of the West, preserving Christian values in the West.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The average age of the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy was about 26. The men who died at Normandy were invading on behalf of their families, their country, and their churches. They were invading on behalf of the Constitution of the United States and its preservation. They were invading on behalf of Christian values in the face of Nazi paganism. Then, they would later fight the Cold War against Marxist paganism on behalf of Christian values.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were the Greatest Generation, in part because they were fighting for the greatest values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1984, Ronald Reagan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu\/ronald-reagan-normandy-speech-point-du-hoc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spoke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on the 40th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Veterans of D-Day were there. He stated: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reagan would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/archives\/speech\/remarks-national-convention-veterans-foreign-wars-chicago-illinois\">later<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/archives\/speech\/remarks-presenting-medal-honor-master-sergeant-roy-p-benavidez\">say:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a very moving experience. They were what General Marshall called \u2018our secret weapon. The best damn kids in the world.\u2019 Where do we find such men? The answer came almost as quickly as I\u2019d asked the question: Where we\u2019ve <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">always<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  found them in this country. On the farms, the shops, the stores and the offices. They just are the product of the freest society the world has ever known.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joe Biden arrived in Normandy yesterday. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/biden-delivers-remarks-from-80th-d-day-anniversary-ceremony\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re not far off from the time of the last living voices of those who fought and bled on D-Day will no longer be with us. So we have a special obligation. We cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. We must remember it. We must honor it and live it. And we must remember, the fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today. Democracy is never guaranteed. Every generation must preserve it, defend it, and fight for it. That\u2019s the test of the ages. In memory of those who fought here, died here, literally saved the world here, let us be worthy of their sacrifice.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let us be the generation that when history is written about our time in 10, 20, 30, 50, 80 years from now, it\u2019ll be said when the moment came, we met the moment, we stood strong, our alliances were made stronger, we saved democracy in our time as well. Thank you very much. And may God bless you all and may God protect our troops.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The real question for us on the 80th anniversary of D-Day is the question that Reagan asked: Where do we find such men? Because it honestly raises goosebumps to think of the extraordinary heroism and bravery of normal 18- and 19-year-old men storming beaches, running uphill into machine-gun fire in order to liberate a continent none of them had ever visited. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where do we find such men?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s a real question: How was the D-Day generation raised? Because that has a lot to do with the kind of men that were produced in the Greatest Generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer is: They were raised in church. Church membership in 1937 was at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/341963\/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">73%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Ninety-six percent of Americans, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/193271\/americans-believe-god.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gallup<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said they believed in God in 1944. A grand total of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prb.org\/resources\/household-change-in-the-united-states\/#:~:text=Changing%20Household%20Structure&#038;text=In%201940%2C%20married%20couples%20with,households%20accounted%20for%209%20percent.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of all households in the United States were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roe-destroyed-many-social-institutions-that-are-unlikely-to-return\/\" title=\"Roe Destroyed Many Social Institutions That Are Unlikely To Return\">single-parent families<\/a> in 1940.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, the men of the Greatest Generation were raised by two parents in churchgoing families that believed in God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It turns out you cannot raise a great generation in a vacuum of values because you can\u2019t raise a great generation without raising a good generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How are we doing today? Today, the American single motherhood rate is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2022\/03\/11\/rising-share-of-americans-see-women-raising-children-on-their-own-cohabitation-as-bad-for-society\/#:~:text=The%20share%20of%20births%20to,somewhat%20by%20race%20and%20ethnicity.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">41%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 10 times the single motherhood rate in 1937. Only <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/341963\/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx#:~:text=In%202020%2C%2047%25%20of%20Americans,2010%20and%2047%25%20in%202020.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">47%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of Americans, a minority of Americans, are members of churches. The churches of today are significantly watered-down from the churches of the 1930s and 1940s, which means that a significant percentage of people who consider themselves members of churches aren\u2019t actually receiving anything like Biblical values. Just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1412740\/us-belief-in-god-by-party\/#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20survey%20conducted,that%20they%20believed%20in%20God.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">74%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of Americans say they believe in God and many of those Americans are actually quasi-agnostic and believe in something spiritual that doesn\u2019t demand anything of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States has spent the four generations since D-Day removing all the supporting institutions of American life, exploding American values in the name of a heedless picture of emotive individualism in which your feelings are all that matters \u2014\u00a0whereas going to church instills in you a belief that you are part of something bigger and more important.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without those values and their supporting institutions, there is no more Greatest Generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only an obnoxiously self-involved generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, 2024, the 80th anniversary of D-Day commemorates the Allied storming of Normandy in 1944. 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