May I bring up a point that is bothersome to me. I know its the ULTIMATE sacrifice that is the subject of this day BUT:
What about the young people that gave up arms,legs and their dreams. They didn't really have a chance to live and now are trying to make a life without ALL the support they need. Not from the government or from the public its wrong.
How do we define ULTIMATE?
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I agree, Joyce. In addition to what you mentioned, there are also the wounds that nobody sees resulting from service to our country ~ difficulty in marriages or even broken marriages, children gone astray, bitterness, guilt ... the list could go on and on. We owe much to our soldiers ~ they have done so much for us!
Good post. I agree. To live with out all the body parts we were born with can be more than difficult. Having to learn a new way of living is so unfair it seems to me but Thank God they are still living. The part of them that we love their innermost being hopefully has not been lost. It should be something that makes us so ashamed to not help these people with every thing we have. To not do so makes us as a people so undeserving for what they have done and given for us. May God forgive us and bless them beyond measure. connie from Texas
6th of June, D-day. I saw just a few minutes ago one of Capa's photos from Omaha-beach.
Every damn bastard that jumped out of one of this landing-boats made the sacrifice. I do not like the word "ultimate". (And the poor bloke that sat up the beach with his heavy-machine-gun - he lost there something of his own too. He came back for years to remember, don't know whether he is still alive.)
Going to combat is gambling - nobody knows who comes out of it in what state: Some are dead, some are wounded in their body, others in their spirits: Every single one that goes, jumps, risks her or his life gives a sacrifice.
I do not like heroic attitude. That's for 20-year-olds.
The question "How to define "ultimate"?" stays. I tend to get rid of the category "ultimate" and replace it with a better word - sorry, I have none. I can excuse myself with the fact, that it is not my language.
Sorry for too much, hm
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