When I realized today was the 6th, I was confused. I had been listening to the radio, had read the news online and no one had mentioned D-Day. I looked at my cell phone, checked with my husband and yes, it is the 6th. D-Day. Am I the only one who remembers? Am I so old, and so few of us remember Pearl Harbor, the war in Europe, D-Day. Well, maybe I am, but Scott at Power Line remembered and he reposted his 2004 remembrance.
The ordeal of Omaha Beach
Professor David Gelernter of Yale University is a man of formidable learning with little patience for phonies. He has detected a tidal wave of phoniness in the celebration of “the greatest generation,” as he wrote in his 2004 Wall Street Journal column “Too much, too late.”
As a remedy for the phoniness he detected, Professor Gelernter prescribed the teaching of our children the major battles of the war, the bestiality of the Japanese, the attitude of the intellectuals, and the memoirs and recollections of the veterans. I’m already preparing the reading list to comply with Professor Gelernter’s prescription.
Professor Gelernter failed to assign a paper topic for the course he has prescribed. I would assign an essay on the subject of sacrifice. Do we deserve the sacrifice made on our behalf? What we can do to become worthy of it? Is the disparity between those who sacrifice and those who reap the benefit too great to bridge?
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S.L.A. Marshall was commissioned to serve as a combat historian with the Army in World War II. By 1960, he was already concerned that “the passing of the years and the retelling of the story have softened the horror of Omaha Beach on D Day.”
In 1960 the Atlantic Monthly published Marshall’s essay on Omaha Beach based on the Normandy field notes he had compiled during his service as combat historian. The essay — “First wave at Omaha Beach” — is available online. Marshall’s essay was the original source for some of the telling details that Stephen Ambrose lifted for his account of Omaha Beach in his book on D-Day.
Please read it. Then print it out and save it for your kids as part of the required reading for the course Professor Gelernter has prescribed. (First posted in 2004.)
This seems to be the best that can be written on a day when not many seem to be remembering.
