Wednesday, June 06, 2007
D-Day soldier's dog tag found in sand
It's the 63 anniversary of D-Day.
An amazing period in our nation's history. This story is an amazing episode that finally ended recently.
As we have entered the fourth year in Iraq, and as of today, according to icasualties.org, 3503 Americans have died in that conflict (not all of those were due to combat, that number is 2891). I was caught by the last paragraph of this article.
Clark was one of 4,000 American and Allied soldiers killed during intense fighting on D-Day, a crucial turning point in the war. The D-Day Memorial is in Bedford, Va., because that town lost 19 soldiers, the highest per capita loss from any single town in the United States.
4,000 American AND Allied soldiers died on D-Day, in case you missed that. Coalition casualties for over 4 years of fighting in Iraq is only 3779.
Yet, D-Day is something to be celebrated, and the "awful waste" of the war in Iraq is something to protest, and vilify the President for.
Somebody needs to get a sense of perspective.
An amazing period in our nation's history. This story is an amazing episode that finally ended recently.
As we have entered the fourth year in Iraq, and as of today, according to icasualties.org, 3503 Americans have died in that conflict (not all of those were due to combat, that number is 2891). I was caught by the last paragraph of this article.
Clark was one of 4,000 American and Allied soldiers killed during intense fighting on D-Day, a crucial turning point in the war. The D-Day Memorial is in Bedford, Va., because that town lost 19 soldiers, the highest per capita loss from any single town in the United States.
4,000 American AND Allied soldiers died on D-Day, in case you missed that. Coalition casualties for over 4 years of fighting in Iraq is only 3779.
Yet, D-Day is something to be celebrated, and the "awful waste" of the war in Iraq is something to protest, and vilify the President for.
Somebody needs to get a sense of perspective.
