Commemoration For D Day

Commemoration For D Day

Thousands of soldiers flung onto the North Coast of France.

Normandy here we come!

Young and malleable, dutiful and primed,

Brave and magnificent.

They hit the beaches running,

And never stopped until they met the Russians in Germany.

The power of organization, so great.

Nothing can stand in its way,

When the people are marshalled towards a purpose,

The purpose being the eradication of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s power.

He was a one man lunatic,

The evil wizard who created conflict where there was no need for any.

To be fair the ravages of Allied retribution after World War 1 had punished Germany too far,

Disturbed the peace,

Left the lingering taste of resentful defeat.

And Capitalism’s great failure led to the Great Depression,

Which decimated the German economy and put the workers out of work.

These enabled the extremists to point the fingers at Jews and foreigners,

People with any weaknesses or differences, who could be blamed,

Communists and Socialists, people with any alternative visions.

How would the hippies and the punks have fared, gays and lesbians?

Adolf was the pied piper,

Leading the Germans to disaster,

Trapped in a nightmare they could not escape from.

Into the arms of allied bombers and Russian rapists,

Cyanide pills and child slaughter.

We salute you.

You did what had to be done.