July 4, 2007

No Daily 'BushWhack'ing, no snark*, no criticism... only a wish for all of you to have a happy and safe 4th of July!!!

* If we were handing out snark, we could possibly mention that the Democrats had the fundraising edge last quarter... or that the Democratic presidential candidates are invading Iowa... or that Bush is inexplicably NOT ruling out a full pardon for Scooter... and from ThinkProgress, here's something to gnaw on... close to 88.7% of Americans will partake in some kind of July 4th festivities today, will spend “more than $275 million on hamburgers and hot dogs,", while 61% will be waving American flags, 28% have Independence Day decorations (my wife probably accounts for 90% of those) and 45% have July Fourth garb "in their closets."

D-Day

Today is the anniversary of D-Day & the Battle of Normandy, still, 63 years later, the largest invasion from the sea ever mounted with more than three million men crossing the Channel to take part in Operation Overlord, an operation that helped turn the tide in the European theater.

Operation Overlord still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy, in what was then German-occupied France.

We salute all that took part in and lost their lives in this historic and world-changing battle...