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Mourn Not The Dead
MOURN NOT THE DEAD (REMEMBERING D-DAY) By Don Kenton Henry Seventy years after D-Day, I sit in the security of my suburban home surrounded by neighbors and residents going about their lives in a state of blissful disregard for the price paid in over 10,000 casualties, which included 4,400 Allied fatalities (2,500 American) on those […]
HISTORY BY THE NUMBERS
“I wish I’d known Uncle Ira. I wish he’d gone to Yankees games with us. It’s not fair. He shouldn’t have died, Grandpa. War is stupid!”
“How many veterans do you think are buried here at Arlington, David?”
“I don’t know, grandpa,” he answered as he pulled the map from the back pocket of his trousers.
“Over two hundred fifty thousand.”
“That’s so many!”
“How many of our kind were murdered in concentration camps before your uncle helped stop Hitler?”
“I don’t know, Grandpa. How many?”
“6 million.”
