Today was the 68th Anniversary of D-Day. While that’s not a “magic number” anniversary – like 2009 was (the 65th) or 2019 will be (the 75th), it’s still a day worth remembering.<\/p>\n
By most, anyway. But not by all.<\/p>\n
Some people forget, I guess. They get caught up in life, and are too busy to take time to remember those who fought 68 years ago today to ensure that America remained free.<\/p>\n
Some whose family fought in World War II are even too busy to remember. Even when those family members were someone close – like a grandfather, or a grand-uncle. Oh well, such is modern life. <\/p>\n
But you’d think the POTUS would remember D-Day.<\/p>\n
For the third consecutive year, the POTUS has done nothing<\/a> to commemorate publicly the anniversary of D-Day. His schedule today<\/a> just doesn’t seem to have allowed it. The last time he did anything to recognize D-Day publicly was in 2009 – the 65th anniversary. <\/p>\n And it looks like the POTUS was also too busy to post a D-Day statement on the White House Website<\/a> or to make a Presidential proclamation<\/a> observing today’s D-Day anniversary. <\/p>\n But I’ll give the POTUS credit; he was<\/em> able to find the time to issue a public statement noting yesterday’s passing of noted author Ray Bradbury<\/a>. That was important enough to merit some of his time.<\/p>\n I know the POTUS is a very busy man. But it seems he could find maybe a 1\/2 hour to do something – somewhere – on the 6th of June to pay his respects to those Americans who fought in Normandy on that date in 1944. You’d think he’d do at least that much, since his maternal grandfather supported the D-Day landings<\/a> and one of his great-uncles went ashore at Omaha Easy Red on D+4. And another of his great-uncles participated in the liberation of the Nazi forced labor camp at Ohrdruf<\/a>. <\/p>\n I guess the POTUS had his reasons for not publicly commemorating D-Day today. Maybe he was simply too busy. Or maybe he just plain forgot. But I still just don’t understand why he couldn’t find the time to remember and recognize those who, 68 years ago today, fought to ensure his freedom – even though he wasn’t yet born.<\/p>\n After all: he seemed to have plenty of spare time 9 days ago to visit Arlington National Cemetery and the Vietnam War Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"