Tag: D-DAY
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Did they die in vain?

They died for freedom — not this: HEADLINE: U.S. Capitol police stop children’s choir from singing the National Anthem because “it might offend someone.” HEADLINE: Fort Bragg in North Carolina renamed because the historic garrison was named after General Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general. Many boys from the South were among the brave heroes who waded into…
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Robert Capa lived and died in war

War photographer Robert Capa “I took no more pictures, I was busy lifting stretchers.” Robert Capa lived through several wars, taking photos of death, courage and sorrow. In the end he too became a victim of war. INDOCHINA WAR On May 25, 1954, in the First IndoChina War, Capa was accompanying a French regiment in…
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‘Men’s souls will be shaken…’

Look at the faces of these brave young men — many of them going to their death — and ask yourselves: Why do I shame their memory and their ultimate sacrifice with senseless violence?
