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[Buckeye Dale]

The 75th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June, 1944.  (75th is known as the diamond or gold)

Remembering D-Day
(June 6, 1944)
By Doris M

Why celebrate and remember June 6, 1944, almost religiously? On this day the tide of World War II began to change, but with unimaginable sacrifice.

The Greatest Generation—who are they? How old are they now? Why are they called “The Greatest Generation?” What did they do to deserve the unending gratitude of a grateful nation?

Are our lives blessed because of them?

Historians disagree as to when World War II began. Some say it started on September 18, 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria, but others say it started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. When Japan bombed the United States of America’s fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was forced unto the war.

America’s young people coming-of-age during this time had seen their parents coping through the Great Depression. They knew how to survive through hardship and were thankful even for the necessities of life. As America was drawn into the war, she was united in a common purpose and her young people shared common values as: love of country, God and family, and a sense of duty.

As they were graduating from high school, ready to enter their adult lives, fall in love, marry, start a family, seek their fortune and/or look for a job, they were drafted or they joined the service.  The very existence of our country hung in the balance.

Instead of pursuing their dreams, they entered and fought in the bloodiest, most destructive, costliest war the world had ever seen. All major countries were involved in the war by early 1942. The war cost more than $1,150,000,000,000 and more than 50 countries were involved in the war. The number of people killed, missing or wounded in the war can never be known.

President Roosevelt and other allied world leaders knew losing to Germany and their allies would be death or worse to free nations. A massive invasion to storm 50 miles of Normandy’s fiercely defended beaches in northern France was planned. The military used the term “D-Day” to note the beginning of such a mission.

June 6, 1944, before dawn the invasion began. It was the largest amphibious invasion in military history. It combined U.S., British and Canadian soldiers: 156,115 soldiers, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders delivering airborne troops. The five beaches along the coast were given code names. Americans stormed Omaha Beach; the sea became blood red as landing crafts were shot up before even landing. The beach was littered with land mines as our troops stormed toward the cliffs.

Returning to the scene forty years later, one veteran, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, who had stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, said to another who had stormed the beach and cliffs also the same day: “That hillside was loaded with mines and a unit of sappers had gone first, to find where the mines were. A number of those guys were lying on the hillside, their legs shattered by the explosions. They’d shot themselves up with morphine and they were telling where it was now safe to step. They were about 25 yards apart, our guys, calming telling us how to get up the hill. They were human markers. …” (The Greatest Generation, page xxi).

“The Great Big Book of Horrible Things” states that World War II is number one in the most number killed, from 480 B.C., (the Second Persian War) through about 1998 ( as I understand).  World War II atrocities, military and civilian, claimed about 66 million lives!

The hardships, suffering, heroism, shattered dreams and etc., we’ll never really know. Nor will we ever know the cruelty some suffered at the hands of fascist maniacs who were trying to conquer the world.

D-Day was the turning point of the war. It ended September 1, 1945. If America had lost World War II, our fate would have been unthinkable. Many believe most of those born after 1945 would not have been born. Was America’s fate in God’s hands?

(Israel is in God’s eternal purpose. Down through history many nations have tried to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people; but not the U.S. I believe that in the 17 th century, one reason God caused our nation to become an independent nation is, He purposed to use America in his plans for Israel. I believe this is why we and our allies were victorious in the II World War in 1945, just three years before Israel declared themselves a state.

May 14, 1948, from Tel Aviv, the Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel a state. Israel was back after 2,000 years! In just 11 minutes America’s President Harry Truman sent a telegram recognizing Israel as a state. We were the first nation to do so!

In numerous Scriptures God said He will gather His people, who were scattered worldwide, back to the land, as Jeremiah 24:6 reads “I will bring them again to this land.” This gathering precedes the Tribulation.

Isaiah 43:5-6 reads: “Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth.” This is happening today!

Except for Obama, both republican and democrat presidents stood beside and honored Israel.  (Thankfully President Trump Honors Israel.)

World War II soldiers came home and tried to pick up their lives, thankful to be free, a  freedom won at tremendous price. They stopped fascist maniacs from conquering America.  Most were wiser because of what they had been through and disciplined from being in the military. They knew what really matters: love of family and country, sacred honor, righteous morality, freedom to worship God and the rights our constitution and Bill of Rights give to us.  The youngest World War II survivors are now in their 90’s. Thousands die every month.

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Hopefully this topic next week.

[oujour76]

May 30, 2019 10:36:02 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

The 75th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June, 1944.  (75th is known as the diamond or gold)

Remembering D-Day
(June 6, 1944)
By Doris M

Why celebrate and remember June 6, 1944, almost religiously? On this day the tide of World War II began to change, but with unimaginable sacrifice.

The Greatest Generation—who are they? How old are they now? Why are they called “The Greatest Generation?” What did they do to deserve the unending gratitude of a grateful nation?

Are our lives blessed because of them?

Historians disagree as to when World War II began. Some say it started on September 18, 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria, but others say it started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. When Japan bombed the United States of America’s fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was forced unto the war.

America’s young people coming-of-age during this time had seen their parents coping through the Great Depression. They knew how to survive through hardship and were thankful even for the necessities of life. As America was drawn into the war, she was united in a common purpose and her young people shared common values as: love of country, God and family, and a sense of duty.

As they were graduating from high school, ready to enter their adult lives, fall in love, marry, start a family, seek their fortune and/or look for a job, they were drafted or they joined the service.  The very existence of our country hung in the balance.

Instead of pursuing their dreams, they entered and fought in the bloodiest, most destructive, costliest war the world had ever seen. All major countries were involved in the war by early 1942. The war cost more than $1,150,000,000,000 and more than 50 countries were involved in the war. The number of people killed, missing or wounded in the war can never be known.

President Roosevelt and other allied world leaders knew losing to Germany and their allies would be death or worse to free nations. A massive invasion to storm 50 miles of Normandy’s fiercely defended beaches in northern France was planned. The military used the term “D-Day” to note the beginning of such a mission.

June 6, 1944, before dawn the invasion began. It was the largest amphibious invasion in military history. It combined U.S., British and Canadian soldiers: 156,115 soldiers, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders delivering airborne troops. The five beaches along the coast were given code names. Americans stormed Omaha Beach; the sea became blood red as landing crafts were shot up before even landing. The beach was littered with land mines as our troops stormed toward the cliffs.

Returning to the scene forty years later, one veteran, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, who had stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, said to another who had stormed the beach and cliffs also the same day: “That hillside was loaded with mines and a unit of sappers had gone first, to find where the mines were. A number of those guys were lying on the hillside, their legs shattered by the explosions. They’d shot themselves up with morphine and they were telling where it was now safe to step. They were about 25 yards apart, our guys, calming telling us how to get up the hill. They were human markers. …” (The Greatest Generation, page xxi).

“The Great Big Book of Horrible Things” states that World War II is number one in the most number killed, from 480 B.C., (the Second Persian War) through about 1998 ( as I understand).  World War II atrocities, military and civilian, claimed about 66 million lives!

The hardships, suffering, heroism, shattered dreams and etc., we’ll never really know. Nor will we ever know the cruelty some suffered at the hands of fascist maniacs who were trying to conquer the world.

D-Day was the turning point of the war. It ended September 1, 1945. If America had lost World War II, our fate would have been unthinkable. Many believe most of those born after 1945 would not have been born. Was America’s fate in God’s hands?

(Israel is in God’s eternal purpose. Down through history many nations have tried to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people; but not the U.S. I believe that in the 17 th century, one reason God caused our nation to become an independent nation is, He purposed to use America in his plans for Israel. I believe this is why we and our allies were victorious in the II World War in 1945, just three years before Israel declared themselves a state.

May 14, 1948, from Tel Aviv, the Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel a state. Israel was back after 2,000 years! In just 11 minutes America’s President Harry Truman sent a telegram recognizing Israel as a state. We were the first nation to do so!

In numerous Scriptures God said He will gather His people, who were scattered worldwide, back to the land, as Jeremiah 24:6 reads “I will bring them again to this land.” This gathering precedes the Tribulation.

Isaiah 43:5-6 reads: “Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth.” This is happening today!

Except for Obama, both republican and democrat presidents stood beside and honored Israel.  (Thankfully President Trump Honors Israel.)

World War II soldiers came home and tried to pick up their lives, thankful to be free, a  freedom won at tremendous price. They stopped fascist maniacs from conquering America.  Most were wiser because of what they had been through and disciplined from being in the military. They knew what really matters: love of family and country, sacred honor, righteous morality, freedom to worship God and the rights our constitution and Bill of Rights give to us.  The youngest World War II survivors are now in their 90’s. Thousands die every month.

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Hopefully this topic next week.

Did a Normandy tour a few years back. Sobering as hell.

[Buckeye Dale]

May 30, 2019 10:59:48 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

May 30, 2019 10:36:02 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

The 75th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June, 1944.  (75th is known as the diamond or gold)

Remembering D-Day
(June 6, 1944)
By Doris M

Why celebrate and remember June 6, 1944, almost religiously? On this day the tide of World War II began to change, but with unimaginable sacrifice.

The Greatest Generation—who are they? How old are they now? Why are they called “The Greatest Generation?” What did they do to deserve the unending gratitude of a grateful nation?

Are our lives blessed because of them?

Historians disagree as to when World War II began. Some say it started on September 18, 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria, but others say it started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. When Japan bombed the United States of America’s fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was forced unto the war.

America’s young people coming-of-age during this time had seen their parents coping through the Great Depression. They knew how to survive through hardship and were thankful even for the necessities of life. As America was drawn into the war, she was united in a common purpose and her young people shared common values as: love of country, God and family, and a sense of duty.

As they were graduating from high school, ready to enter their adult lives, fall in love, marry, start a family, seek their fortune and/or look for a job, they were drafted or they joined the service.  The very existence of our country hung in the balance.

Instead of pursuing their dreams, they entered and fought in the bloodiest, most destructive, costliest war the world had ever seen. All major countries were involved in the war by early 1942. The war cost more than $1,150,000,000,000 and more than 50 countries were involved in the war. The number of people killed, missing or wounded in the war can never be known.

President Roosevelt and other allied world leaders knew losing to Germany and their allies would be death or worse to free nations. A massive invasion to storm 50 miles of Normandy’s fiercely defended beaches in northern France was planned. The military used the term “D-Day” to note the beginning of such a mission.

June 6, 1944, before dawn the invasion began. It was the largest amphibious invasion in military history. It combined U.S., British and Canadian soldiers: 156,115 soldiers, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders delivering airborne troops. The five beaches along the coast were given code names. Americans stormed Omaha Beach; the sea became blood red as landing crafts were shot up before even landing. The beach was littered with land mines as our troops stormed toward the cliffs.

Returning to the scene forty years later, one veteran, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, who had stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, said to another who had stormed the beach and cliffs also the same day: “That hillside was loaded with mines and a unit of sappers had gone first, to find where the mines were. A number of those guys were lying on the hillside, their legs shattered by the explosions. They’d shot themselves up with morphine and they were telling where it was now safe to step. They were about 25 yards apart, our guys, calming telling us how to get up the hill. They were human markers. …” (The Greatest Generation, page xxi).

“The Great Big Book of Horrible Things” states that World War II is number one in the most number killed, from 480 B.C., (the Second Persian War) through about 1998 ( as I understand).  World War II atrocities, military and civilian, claimed about 66 million lives!

The hardships, suffering, heroism, shattered dreams and etc., we’ll never really know. Nor will we ever know the cruelty some suffered at the hands of fascist maniacs who were trying to conquer the world.

D-Day was the turning point of the war. It ended September 1, 1945. If America had lost World War II, our fate would have been unthinkable. Many believe most of those born after 1945 would not have been born. Was America’s fate in God’s hands?

(Israel is in God’s eternal purpose. Down through history many nations have tried to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people; but not the U.S. I believe that in the 17 th century, one reason God caused our nation to become an independent nation is, He purposed to use America in his plans for Israel. I believe this is why we and our allies were victorious in the II World War in 1945, just three years before Israel declared themselves a state.

May 14, 1948, from Tel Aviv, the Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel a state. Israel was back after 2,000 years! In just 11 minutes America’s President Harry Truman sent a telegram recognizing Israel as a state. We were the first nation to do so!

In numerous Scriptures God said He will gather His people, who were scattered worldwide, back to the land, as Jeremiah 24:6 reads “I will bring them again to this land.” This gathering precedes the Tribulation.

Isaiah 43:5-6 reads: “Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth.” This is happening today!

Except for Obama, both republican and democrat presidents stood beside and honored Israel.  (Thankfully President Trump Honors Israel.)

World War II soldiers came home and tried to pick up their lives, thankful to be free, a  freedom won at tremendous price. They stopped fascist maniacs from conquering America.  Most were wiser because of what they had been through and disciplined from being in the military. They knew what really matters: love of family and country, sacred honor, righteous morality, freedom to worship God and the rights our constitution and Bill of Rights give to us.  The youngest World War II survivors are now in their 90’s. Thousands die every month.

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Hopefully this topic next week.

Did a Normandy tour a few years back. Sobering as hell.

Yes sir...as is visiting any of the numerous American Cemeteries in Europe.  

[Buckeye Dale]

...and, just to keep it all together, Doris' next article for your reading pleasure:

Sound of the Rockies Choir
By
Doris M

D-Day 1944 saw some of the worst fighting, loss of life amid atrocious horrors of war ever experienced; yet bravery, self-sacrifice for brothers in arm, loyalty to God and country dominated the fight. These young soldiers became known as “The Greatest Generation.” D-Day was the turning point of the war. The war ended September 1, 1945. If America had lost World War II, our fate would have been unthinkable. Many believe most of those born after 1945 would not have been born.
This June 6, 2019 will mark 75 years since that famous, terrible day. This summer, remembrances will be celebrated by grateful nations, honoring solders who lost their lives fighting for freedom that fateful summer of 1944—young soldiers from America, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Holland, Australia and Poland.
From Normandy, Land of Liberty web site: “The anniversary will be commemorated with military parades, fireworks displays, airdrops, giant picnics, concerts and military camp re-enactments. …”
“On June 6, 2019 at 6pm, the official international ceremony celebrating this major anniversary will take place on Juno Beach and will be attended by many Allied Heads of State. US President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May and many other world leaders and dignitaries will all be in Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary.
On June 5, 2019, the Daks Over Normandy will follow into the footsteps of The Greatest Generation! About 250 men and women will board an aircraft in the united kingdom to (exactly like 75 years before) fly across the English Channel and to jump into the historic drop zones of Normandy. They will be wearing WWII style Allied uniforms and will jump military round parachutes. It will be an event which has no equal.”
You can find events for this summer in Normandy on the internet. I included these two events as examples of celebrations of remembrances.
To be in these ceremonies is a once-in-a-lifetime joy and honor—both exhilarating and humbling. A men’s a cappella choir from Colorado, with three men from the Phoenix, area will be taking part in D-Day events in Normandy. The choir boasts almost 100 men, ranging from about 80 years old to some in high school.
What a blessing for these high school young men to go to Normandy and see veterans who 75 years ago, literally saved the free world!
Three members of the men’s A Cappella Syndicate Chorus in the Phoenix area will join the Sound of the Rockies Choir in Normandy, France. What an honor!
I attended one of their concerts here and met a member, Tencil Scott, and his wife. Mr. Scott has updated me on many events scheduled.
From the pen of Mr. T. Scott to me on May 21, 2019:
“On June 6th we will sing four songs at the memorial service at the American Cemetery in Brittany, France; repeat performance, June 7th, at Omaha Beach. On June 8th, we will do a special town-square performance singing the remaining chosen songs. We then will participate in a parade at Saint Mere Eglise.
We have the huge honor of opening and closing the two memorial performances. We will sing the Star Spangled Banner along with the University of Texas Band.
As I understand, Saint Mere Eglise was the first town liberated by our soldiers and it is anticipated that as many as 40,000 people will attend the concert and parade. The parade involves many WWII vehicles, jeeps, tanks and etc. Parachute jumpers will exit some of the vintage aircraft already headed for France. I understand that this year will be a show to remember. It’s likely to be the last major event that the remaining veterans of the 1944 D-Day landing will be present to see as most of those guys are now 95 years of age and more.”
I’ve read that the Colorado choir is the only vocal ensemble from the United States performing at the ceremony.
Mr. Bruce Henson, a choir member said: “I recently heard that June 6, 1944, may have been the single most important day of the 20th century. So to have our younger generation see that history live and recreated, the vehicles they have, the parachute drops, the sense of the moment is extremely strong. It was just an opportunity, once-in-a-lifetime, not to be missed,”
Why might June 6, 1944 have been the most important day of the 20th century? I would say, at least one of the most important days, after May 14, 1948 when Israel became an independent state. For June 6, 1944, we need to consider Acts 16:6-16.
The Apostle Paul and Silas, on Paul’s second missionary journey, planned to travel into Asia, preaching the Gospel and starting churches. Somehow the Spirit of God forbid them to enter Asia. Paul and Silas were at Troas, pondering where God wanted them to go. Acts 16:9, “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; there stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
Looking at a map, Macedonia is located across the Aegean Sea on the mainland of Greece. This resulted in the Gospel going from Asia into Europe. Henry M. Morris’s note in the Morris Study Bible reads: “It is sobering to think that if Paul had not been redirected to Philippi and Greece, he might never have gone into Europe and Christianity might have remained primarily an Asian religion. But God had other purposes.”
In Philippi, Macedonia, Paul found no Jewish gathering, only a small group of ladies who met by a river for prayer. Lydia was one of them; she listened to Paul and the Lord saved her. Interesting—a ladies prayer meeting became the nucleus of the first Christian church in Europe.
Centuries later, the Gospel, a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ’s death in payment for our sins, came from Europe to America on the Mayflower. America was born a Judeo-Christian nation.
America’s enemies in WWII were Godless, seemingly controlled by Satan, bent on destroying any traces of Christianity or Judaism. They were beyond cruel. If they had won the war, it is doubtful (humanly speaking) Christian nations would have survived.
D-Day, June 6, 1944 was the beginning of the turning point in America and her allied forces for victory and for Christian nations to live on!
Thank God we can celebrate and thankfully remember D-Day, June 6, 1944!

[oujour76]

May 30, 2019 12:36:33 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

May 30, 2019 10:59:48 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Did a Normandy tour a few years back. Sobering as hell.

Yes sir...as is visiting any of the numerous American Cemeteries in Europe.  

Yes, and those facilities are immaculately maintained.

[Buckeye Dale]

May 30, 2019 12:42:54 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

May 30, 2019 12:36:33 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

Yes sir...as is visiting any of the numerous American Cemeteries in Europe.  

Yes, and those facilities are immaculately maintained.

We visited several while we were in Germany from '77-80.  There are also many small graveyards, some personally maintained by grateful family members of those rescued 75 years ago.  I remember a couple years ago, someone (Doc, I think) posted a story about a lady who visited her fiance's grave in France that was maintained by a family.  Touching story, and mindful that many other countries (& their citizens) appreciate America more than many Americans do.  

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May 30, 2019 10:59:48 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

May 30, 2019 10:36:02 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

The 75th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June, 1944.  (75th is known as the diamond or gold)

Remembering D-Day
(June 6, 1944)
By Doris M

Why celebrate and remember June 6, 1944, almost religiously? On this day the tide of World War II began to change, but with unimaginable sacrifice.

The Greatest Generation—who are they? How old are they now? Why are they called “The Greatest Generation?” What did they do to deserve the unending gratitude of a grateful nation?

Are our lives blessed because of them?

Historians disagree as to when World War II began. Some say it started on September 18, 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria, but others say it started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. When Japan bombed the United States of America’s fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was forced unto the war.

America’s young people coming-of-age during this time had seen their parents coping through the Great Depression. They knew how to survive through hardship and were thankful even for the necessities of life. As America was drawn into the war, she was united in a common purpose and her young people shared common values as: love of country, God and family, and a sense of duty.

As they were graduating from high school, ready to enter their adult lives, fall in love, marry, start a family, seek their fortune and/or look for a job, they were drafted or they joined the service.  The very existence of our country hung in the balance.

Instead of pursuing their dreams, they entered and fought in the bloodiest, most destructive, costliest war the world had ever seen. All major countries were involved in the war by early 1942. The war cost more than $1,150,000,000,000 and more than 50 countries were involved in the war. The number of people killed, missing or wounded in the war can never be known.

President Roosevelt and other allied world leaders knew losing to Germany and their allies would be death or worse to free nations. A massive invasion to storm 50 miles of Normandy’s fiercely defended beaches in northern France was planned. The military used the term “D-Day” to note the beginning of such a mission.

June 6, 1944, before dawn the invasion began. It was the largest amphibious invasion in military history. It combined U.S., British and Canadian soldiers: 156,115 soldiers, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders delivering airborne troops. The five beaches along the coast were given code names. Americans stormed Omaha Beach; the sea became blood red as landing crafts were shot up before even landing. The beach was littered with land mines as our troops stormed toward the cliffs.

Returning to the scene forty years later, one veteran, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, who had stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, said to another who had stormed the beach and cliffs also the same day: “That hillside was loaded with mines and a unit of sappers had gone first, to find where the mines were. A number of those guys were lying on the hillside, their legs shattered by the explosions. They’d shot themselves up with morphine and they were telling where it was now safe to step. They were about 25 yards apart, our guys, calming telling us how to get up the hill. They were human markers. …” (The Greatest Generation, page xxi).

“The Great Big Book of Horrible Things” states that World War II is number one in the most number killed, from 480 B.C., (the Second Persian War) through about 1998 ( as I understand).  World War II atrocities, military and civilian, claimed about 66 million lives!

The hardships, suffering, heroism, shattered dreams and etc., we’ll never really know. Nor will we ever know the cruelty some suffered at the hands of fascist maniacs who were trying to conquer the world.

D-Day was the turning point of the war. It ended September 1, 1945. If America had lost World War II, our fate would have been unthinkable. Many believe most of those born after 1945 would not have been born. Was America’s fate in God’s hands?

(Israel is in God’s eternal purpose. Down through history many nations have tried to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people; but not the U.S. I believe that in the 17 th century, one reason God caused our nation to become an independent nation is, He purposed to use America in his plans for Israel. I believe this is why we and our allies were victorious in the II World War in 1945, just three years before Israel declared themselves a state.

May 14, 1948, from Tel Aviv, the Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel a state. Israel was back after 2,000 years! In just 11 minutes America’s President Harry Truman sent a telegram recognizing Israel as a state. We were the first nation to do so!

In numerous Scriptures God said He will gather His people, who were scattered worldwide, back to the land, as Jeremiah 24:6 reads “I will bring them again to this land.” This gathering precedes the Tribulation.

Isaiah 43:5-6 reads: “Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth.” This is happening today!

Except for Obama, both republican and democrat presidents stood beside and honored Israel.  (Thankfully President Trump Honors Israel.)

World War II soldiers came home and tried to pick up their lives, thankful to be free, a  freedom won at tremendous price. They stopped fascist maniacs from conquering America.  Most were wiser because of what they had been through and disciplined from being in the military. They knew what really matters: love of family and country, sacred honor, righteous morality, freedom to worship God and the rights our constitution and Bill of Rights give to us.  The youngest World War II survivors are now in their 90’s. Thousands die every month.

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Hopefully this topic next week.

Did a Normandy tour a few years back. Sobering as hell.

Glad you finally decided to get sober... 

As for D-Day, one of the under appreciated aspects of this historic anniversary is that it was also the date of Eric Clapton's conception.

(Clapton's father was a Canadian fly boy stationed in England in June of 1944.  Eric never met his biological dad.)