They are old men now, even by today’s standards. But as young men, they conquered the world.
Looking back 75 years as we commemorate the ending of the war in Europe, it’s hard to believe their exploits aren’t the plot of some Hollywood movie. In fact, many of their daring deeds were given the silver screen treatment — and it still seems like fiction.
Did these guys and their contemporaries really storm the beaches at Normandy, Anzio, Tarawa, and Saipan? Beach by beach, town by town, island by island they rid the world of the most malignant evil it had ever known.
This is heroism — the real kind and not the make-believe heroism of people who claim they’re heroes because of what they say or what they had to endure. When one of those fake heroes wades through an ocean of blood and guts, freezes, roasts, comes under constant fire from bullets and shells — then they can claim the mantle of “hero.”
Did I mention they freed a continent and brought peace to the entire world?
Six men, age 96-100, joined Donald Trump at the World War II Memorial to commemorate the ending of the war in Europe 75 years ago today. Originally, they were going to go to Moscow. But the pandemic forced them to cancel so they joined the president in Washington.
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