tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post4251203282494922822..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Spare a Moment to RememberTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-79801356525987593082012-03-27T23:30:35.217-04:002012-03-27T23:30:35.217-04:00"Me, I've always wondered where that troo..."Me, I've always wondered where that troopship would have gone if Japan had not surrendered just then."<br /><br />I would think right down the f****ng enemy's throat to choke them. Ahem. Sorry. Got a bit emotional there.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09800106790176447938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-43532187772698115992012-02-24T13:50:33.508-05:002012-02-24T13:50:33.508-05:00John Lukacs wrote in "Letter from Normandy (1...John Lukacs wrote in "Letter from Normandy (1995)"<br /><br /><i>At best, civilization may survive and exist, in part because of what these young soldiers fought and died for in Normandy fifty years ago. At worst, Churchill and Roosevelt gave us -- especially those of us who were are no longer young but were young then -- fifty years. Fifty years before the rise of a new kind of barbarism, not incarnated by the armed might of Germans or Russians, before the clouds of the New Dark Ages darken the lives of our children and grandchildren. They gave us fifty years. Perhaps that was enough.</i>TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-8521804293877276042012-02-24T11:44:07.987-05:002012-02-24T11:44:07.987-05:00Thanks for this. My grand-uncle, who is one of my ...Thanks for this. My grand-uncle, who is one of my most-loved relatives, was at D-Day in Normandy.<br /><br />The comment about the cynicism of the present (my) generation is spot-on. The nihilism of our country has become so great that we have a hard time even imagining people acting so self-sacrificially, for a purpose transcending themselves. I very much doubt we are up for a repeat performance if we're called to such a thing again. It makes me sad how quickly we've thrown away what men like my uncle and your father fought so hard to keep for us.<br /><br />I sometimes wonder what my uncle must think as he watches where things are going. I wish we could have kept it long enough that he wouldn't have needed to see our decadence in his lifetime.The Deucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09664665914768916965noreply@blogger.com