Taking time to think.
Wednesday: June 10, 2026
Dear Patriot,
Life flies at us all fast.
We live in a whirlwind of images, news and noise.
It is hard to stop scrolling through it.
Trump storms out of interview. Trump goes to basketball game. California still cheating, Thune is still inept. Republican Senators still traitorous jerks. Iran still firing. Primaries still happening.
All of that and more are running in the background all the time.
On occasion, in our Wednesday newsletter, we offer information to give you a second to pause. And then read words of contemplation, reflection, remembrance and new consideration.
Today, you will find answer to these questions….
how were so many kids so very brave?
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are we forgetting what Covid-CCP did to us?
why has it been so slow to turn the economy around?
what is a way of silent disobedience?
can beauty restore us?
1- This is a good way to remember what our fathers’ and grandfathers’ generations did for us when they were but teenagers. Read the whole military history at the link.
Victor Davis Hanson at Daily Signal
We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy
QUOTE: This past week was June 6, 2026. That’s the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took place on June 6, 1944. It was the largest amphibious invasion since Xerxes’ invasion of Greece. It might have been much larger, even.
Some 300,000 British, Canadian, and American troops landed on five beaches in Normandy. Probably about 150,000 on land and over 160,000 various naval personnel and airborne personnel. On that single day, more than 10,000 British, American, and Canadian troops were wounded or missing or killed. Forty-four hundred we know Americans, 4,400 were dead among all Allied armies.
Probably most of those were Americans.
Our army was the 19th largest in the world. The Portuguese had a bigger army than we did. We were in rapid mobilization and rearming. The British knew that. The Russians knew that. But the problem was we were very confident that we, to end wars, would go straight to Berlin. No fooling around in peripheral theaters.It was a great success and in some ways a failure. The first day, the British and Canadian beaches were very lightly defended in comparison with the Americans, who had high cliffs, and the wind had blown the Americans off course. The seas were rougher. Many of our tanks that were supposedly floatable sank.
We didn’t have the ability to knock out the German artillery and machine guns on the first day, and more than half the casualties and fatalities on the entire D-Day were at Omaha Beach. Nonetheless, in a series of waves, pretty young kids that had no prior battle experience, 18 and 19, charged right off the beach, right across it, and eventually up over the seawall and captured Germans.
And by the end of the day, they had in their possession Utah and Omaha Beach, and the British and the Canadians had made a successful landing.It was a stunning achievement to land on June 6, 1944, and to be across the Rhine and receive the surrender of all Western troops in the German army on May 9 and 10, less than a year later.
We were in Western Europe for less than a year, and we had fought in North Africa. We had fought in Sicily. We had fought in Italy. We had fought in the Pacific. We had alone defeated Japan with the help of the British.
People keep saying the Red Army won World War II. The Red Army did one thing. It destroyed German soldiers in land warfare. It did not have a strategic bombing campaign. It did not have a naval campaign. It did not fight the Italians. It did not fight the Japanese until the last two years of the war.
The American achievement we should all remember today was quite stunning, and we all are the inheritors of a free and prosperous and secure United States in part because of those young kids who went out of the landing craft, charged at Omaha Beach, and suffered in some cases 90% casualties of their company.
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