Why waste time here on this 6th of June

When you can go to The American Catholic for an update on the 82nd Anniversary of that Day of Days on June 6th, 1944.  Here, here, here and here are, as usual, some good reads.  

Like last year, I've seen no major MSM mention of it.  I'm sure a couple outlets have if you Google them and D-Day stories directly. But even Googling "D-Day" yielded nothing from any MSM outlets I saw, except the BBB if you count that. 

As I've said, WW2 had fallen to the wayside by the time I was entering high school and college in the 1980s.  Vietnam had become the pop culture starting point around which endless movies, shows, and class lessons were based.  WW2 got mention on the 10s.  That is, every 10th Anniversary year.  I recall in the early 90s (50th), there was significant coverage.  But only around the various key anniversary dates.

It would be Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation and Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan in the late 90s that threw WW2 back into the spotlight.  Up until that point, WW2  had been given about 70s movie style treatments at best.  The movie The Big Red One was about as gritty and explicit as you got for mainstream releases.  Then came the 80s and 90s and an upswing in graphic effects and depictions of violence.  Just in time for movies like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.  But not for WW2.

Not until Saving Private Ryan.  For about two generations, WW2 was old John Wayne movies or adventure romps like The Guns of Navarone or even Kelly's Heroes.  It  therefore wasn't seen as being really bad, like Vietnam (as a college classmate once said). 

Well, SPR put the kibosh on that attitude.  Suddenly those old, stoic vets who were grandpa or great grandpa were cast in a new light.  It didn't hurt that, just as Band of Brothers was released, so came the  9/11 attacks.  Suddenly, patriotism was cool again, and the entire WW2 generation was examined in a new, and respectful light.

But that was then.  By the time of Covid, BLM, and 2020, it was time to rethink that generation oce again.  From the A-bombs to the strategic bombings in general to the segregation and internment camps to our Nazi friendly Jim Crow society (thank you Ken Burns), it shouldn't have come as a shock when the tweet featuring the famous beach landing on D-Day was labeled with the caption "Celebrating the anniversary of an army of white supremacists fighting an army of white supremacists'. I know due to backlash it was taken down, but the point remains. 

Now Trump, with his usual ham-fisted way, is bringing back patriotism in almost cartoonish ways.  Now it seems forced.  Though it has allowed some to push back against the Left's Taliban inspired iconoclasm juggernaut.  But in it all, like many such things can happen, the core of what we're supposed to remember seems to be forgotten.  Hence, even among some conservative sites, I've seen little about this. Many that are waving the flags do so as a sort of 'take that liberals', as opposed to focusing on the topic at hand, which doesn't really help.  But some are still remembering because of what should be remembered, which isn't a bad thing in itself. Because goodness knows, for all its flaws that every generation will have, there was a lot there on those beaches worth remember, if not emulating.