Spencer Pratt finishing with a lower % of the vote than Trump got in 2024 is a very good reminder of the echo chamber that Twitter has created around this election
German Chancellor Merz: Tomorrow is June 6th, D-Day, when the Americans once ended a war in Europe
Trump: “That was not a pleasant day for you."
Merz: “This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship” (2025)
"Send me" implies a willing sacrifice.
However most of them were conscripts and not volunteers.
They didn't have a choice. "We'll go" was the sentiment. A reluctant duty.
The reality was that they were facing down a reluctant duty. That is what Americans need to remember. These were young men, almost children who were being sent to do something awful.
They are heroes because they did it even though they did not want to. That is what a hero is.
They desperately need them to be portrayed as willing sacrifices because it removes the burden of the older generations, who send the young to die. It makes them feel better about it. "Look at those boys, what heroes, dying for the life that I live and they will never experience."
God bless the heroes of Normandy. Winston and I visited Omaha beach last weekend. Western Civilization was saved by ordinary men, thrust into history, who refused to fail.
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