It was the war that America won.
It was about good versus evil.
It was about humanity versus genocide.
It was about right versus wrong.
And, G-d was our co-pilot.
And it started with D-Day, our shining hour.
Our Greatest Generation.
Those that did what had to be done and those that paid the ultimate price.
For freedom.
For liberation.
For the fate of peoples they didn’t know in a land they’d never been who were being conquered and killed for reasons they did not understand.
These were the sacrifices of our soldiers.
The soldiers fought the war we remember, commemorate and celebrate.
Our government fought the war, as governments did and continue to do. And, to win the War, the US:
made a pact with the murderous Stalin; and
dropped the Atomic Bomb. Twice.
Because “the enemy of our enemy is our friend.” True for dictators and explosives.
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This is still the cornerstone of our foreign policy. Only now, the calculations and murderous and duplicitous actions of our “allies” don’t take decades to come to light. They take mere hours.
And even the “good guys” in World War II were not always so good. Still, the monumental evil on the other side silenced even some pacifists.
Had we not carved up Europe and aided Stalin’s brutal rule, would we have won the War? And if we had won the War without an alliance with the USSR, would we have immediately had to fight Stalin?
Wars since then haven’t been so easily waged. And they haven’t been won. Not a one. Because World War II was the exception: war is so rarely about good versus evil. War is usually about politics, property and market share.
Recently, radical conclusions are bubbling to the surface: the enemy of our enemy is just as evil as our enemy. And, if we arm the enemy of our enemy, they may become our enemy, too. And we will have given them the tools of war.
And when that war comes, it will not be a cold one. It will be a nuclear one.
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G-d bless the Greatest Generation. May we learn war no more.
