{"id":8224,"date":"2022-06-06T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:30:40","slug":"d-day-remembering-the-boys-at-pointe-du-hoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/06\/d-day-remembering-the-boys-at-pointe-du-hoc\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day &#8211; Remembering The Boys at Pointe du Hoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DDay-Hoc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DDay-Hoc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DDay-Hoc.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DDay-Hoc-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DDay-Hoc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DDay-Hoc-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.\u201d<br \/>\n &#8211; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2022\/06\/remembering_the_boys_of_point_du_hoc_.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What moved the brave men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc was the firm resolve and spirit that liberty and virtue, freedom and duty, God and justice, were bound together and it is only in this unity that true freedom and progress be enjoyed. The relativism preached today is contrary to the American Founding and the American resolve and spirit that confronted the great darkness of Nazism and totalitarian ideologies in the twentieth century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to compare those brave young men of 1944 with some of the hoodlums today burning buildings and wreaking havoc. God save our country. <\/p>\n<p>Image stolen from <a href=\"https:\/\/acecomments.mu.nu\/?post=399427\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ace<\/a>&#8216;s Art Thread. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSoldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-heroes","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}