October 10th
Letter to the Editor
On December 7th,
1941, a day that will live in infamy, we were all Americans. It was on that day
that three quarters of our Pacific Fleet was decimated at Pearl
Harbor. Yet
six months later, on June 4th, 1942, Americans turned the tide of
the War in the Pacific at the battle of Midway.
Two years later, on
June 6, 1944, 73,000 soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy and according to
the figures released by the US Army Center of Military History there were 6,036
causalities, including wounded and missing; they were all Americans.
On July 27th,
1953 the armistice was signed ending what was called a Police Action but better
known as the Korean War. According to the Department of Defense the number of
service men KIA was 36,574 and another 103,284 were wounded; they were all
Americans.
Before any service man
or woman made the supreme sacrifice in defense of our Country they did so as
Americans, not Republicans or Democrats. We are now witnessing in our history
the most outrageous treatment of our departed service men and women that has
ever befallen our Nation.
At the World War II
Memorial are monuments to the bravery and sacrifice of those men and women who
defied the Nazi’s in Europe and the Empire of Japan; they gave their lives as
Americans. The Memorial is
serviced by a sidewalk, no doors to go through, no stairs to climb. Many that came to Washington to pay their respects and
remember their fallen brethren did so in wheel chairs.
For many this may be
the last time that they will be able to pay their respects before they
themselves are ‘promoted to Glory’. And
their way is barred.
It is inconceivable
that any President would punish the very men and women who served so gallantly
by denying them, for a day, the opportunity to share their final years among so
many who unselfishly gave of their lives.
It is within Obama’s
authority to open these memorials but his agenda is to maximize the pain of
these freedom fighters. It
is about what you would expect from someone who never wore the uniform of our
military. History will not
remember a Harry Reid or a John Boehner but it will remember Obama as the man
who closed the door on those Americans who served our Great Nation. Those men
and women were all Americans. Somehow he has forgotten this.
CCTA Member, Louis Call
