The thanks we owe to the men who stormed the Normandy beaches and the leaders who made the extraordinarily difficult decision to send them is to ensure the civilization they saved remains the beacon of light and truth and is not worn away by neglect and contempt.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 6, 2025
I remember when I was nineteen my (veteran) mother saying, “I can’t believe it’s been thirty years.”
[Update a few minutes later]
The great crusade and the men who made it work.
FYI this post and the next one display for me with a lot of visible HTML markup. No idea whether it is some quirk of my browser/OS.
#MeToo
I remember when I was a young lad of 26 hearing two old guys (in their late thirties) say “can you believe Pearl Harbor was 35 years ago?” It’s hard to believe THAT moment was almost 50 years ago. It goes way too fast.