A moment of silence, please!
June 6, 1944. D-Day. Sixty-four years ago over 6,000 Americans died on the coast of Normandy. More by nearly half than in 5+ years of the war in Iraq, more than in six months of 1967 during the costliest period of the war in Vietnam. Many didn't even get to fire their rifles. Some drowned. Many didn't even make it ashore. That was just the first day.
It seems a ghastly sum of butchered humanity. It was. It is. But alongside the commitment and loss leading up to that point it was a loss considered acceptable, one that could be absorbed.
June 6, 1944.
The Beatles song: "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?"
I'll be that in just over two years. Those who were 20 on D-Day are 84 now. The ones still with us are dying at a rate of over 1,000 a day. Time marches for those long since beyond doing so.
A few moments of silence, please! Amen.
Shalom,
Pastor Roger
Common folk. Common ground. Uncommon love.
About Me
- Pastor Roger:
- Left-handed aircraft engine mechanic, machinist and engineering specialist. Playwright and poet. Minister among wonderful and unique people in downtown Portland. Veteran, husband, father, outreach pastor. Christ follower by the grace of God.
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