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Shadows of World War 3 Loom on D-Day 80th anniversary
“As we gather here today, it’s not just to honor those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day, June 6, 1944. It’s to listen to the echo of their voices. To hear them. They’re not asking us to scale these cliffs, but they’re asking us to stay true to what America stands for.”
So spoke President Joe Biden this week atop a cliff U.S. Army Rangers scaled 80 years ago as he commemorated the anniversary of “D-Day,” the sacrosanct day when 156,000 American, Canadian, and British soldiers stormed the French beaches of Normandy to help liberate northern France from Nazi occupation. Code-named “Operation Overlord,” the largest naval, air, and land operation in history at the time, many historians credit it as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
While it’s customary for leaders of the war-era Allied forces to participate in the ceremonies honoring their veterans of that momentous military action, this year brings with it an even more urgent message as Europe is closer to war than it has ever been since 1945 and fascist ideology threatens democracy’s…
