Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????

What would you do if America came under attack? Not from an isolated terror incident, but from an invasion. Armed forces crossing our border, shooting at us and bombing our buildings.

Would you stay and fight? Or would you seek out safety for you and your family, even if it meant leaving the country?

This was a question posed by a recent Quinnipiac poll on how Americans felt about the war in Ukraine. The answers were stunning.

It would have been easy for respondents to boast patriotism — “Of course I’d stay and fight! What kind of question is that?”

But that’s not what happened.

Instead, only 55% of Americans said they would remain here and defend the country. When broken down by political parties, 68% of Republicans said they weren’t going anywhere, but only 40% of Democrats did.

And 52% of Democrats — a majority — said they would flee.

This prompted some predictable outrage.

“What in the #### happened to this country?” the Wall Street Journal wrote. “We aren’t talking about women and children, or even some cadre of pacifists and conscientious objectors. This is most Democrats saying they’d rather leave America than defend it.”

In addition, amongst young people ages 18-34, traditionally the group that does most of the fighting, a majority (48% to 45%) said they would rather bolt than battle, according to the poll. And that’s regardless of their political affiliation.

Just think. If this information is right, a foreign enemy contemplating an attack on America can count on about half the U.S. population heading for the hills.

That should cause us some sleepless nights.

Source: https://www.mitchalbom.com/stay-and-fight-or-run-away-poll-reveals-much-about-american-patriotism/

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Jun 6, 2022, 10:58 AM

Bill, did you, or anybody else know that in just over a month from the landing on the Beaches in Normandy, in the Operation called "Overlord" = D Day, it was estimated that it was over 425,000 Allied troops, and German troops were killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoners. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, and 125,847 were U.S. ground troops, and 83,045 were from a US Airborne Group. The British, Canadian, and Polish ground forces, of those 3 countries, their losses almost equaled the losses of our American kids, and most of them were still kids bc, most of our force were of 17, 18, 19, and 20 year old American kid soldiers!!! Germany had about 200,000 casualties who were killed or wounded, and about 200,000 who were captured as prisoners of war. Now, read this next part.

In Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on August 6th, and 9th 1945, there were two of the worst weapons of war at any time in the history of the world were detonated over those two populated cities of Japan. And just those two nuclear bombs killed between 129,000, and 226,000 people, and "most" of those who were killed were civilians, men, women, and children that didn't wear the cloths of a soldier, nor had they ever been trained as a military soldier.

The ABSOLUTE worst thing about those two wars, is that they were started by a few unstable men that at no time were ever in danger of any harm coming to them, or their families. I personally believe that wars can be avoided if the men, and women that will be risking their lives to fight the war, would make sure that before a shot was fired, that the men, women that made the choice to go to war, was made to go with them on the front lines of the war that they start, and that their family has to go with them. Do that, force that to be one of the prongs of war before it starts, and a shot will never be fired. I mean there is no way possible that the people that order others to go to war, can stop the ones they order to war, from taking them with them to the front line!!!!

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