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It was an open question, toward the spring of 1944, as to whether a democracy could produce young soldiers capable of fighting effectively against the best that Nazi Germany could produce. Hitler was certain the answer was no....the Wehrmacht would prevail. Totalitarian fanaticism and discipline would always conquer democratic liberalism and softness. Of that Hitler was sure. If Hitler had seen Den Brotheridge and Bob Mathias in action at the beginning of D-Day, He might have had second thoughts. It was [they] and their buddies, the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and...The bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war, cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers as heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other young men. But when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought. They were soldiers of democracy. They were the men of D-Day, and to them we owe our freedom. ~from D-Day by Stephen E. Ambrose
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:52:40 +0000

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