On this day in 1944, the greatest amphibious invasion in history took place (ahem! after the greatest airborne operation the night before).

This was the culmination of years of planning and sacrifice-in-solidarity by Americans  who thought they were setting the world free.

America faces a greater existential threat right now, right here on the home front,  than any threat posed by the Axis Powers then.

Since 1917 Americans have been sent to fight other countries’ wars and die for everything except American interests. American fighting men served and put their lives on the line, believing they were preserving freedom. I was one of them.

Has the cause of freedom actually been served, though? Is the world, or even our country, a better place thanks to all the sacrifices Americans have made?

Americans enjoy less freedom now than ever before. We’re also less prosperous than previous generations, even when the GDP and Dow Jones numbers look good. What has happened to our industrial infrastructure, that was once the most powerful in the world? What has happened to our families? What has happened to morality? What has happened to our unity?

If China attacked us tomorrow like Japan did on 12/7/41, about half the country would be clamoring  for surrender. They would want, and work toward helping, the Communists win because they hate our country so much.

How would we pay for a war–borrow the money from our enemies (and continue giving millions of it back to them as foreign aid)? How would we get medicine and spare parts to our troops, when we’ve been duped into outsourcing all that production to our enemies?

What have our sacrifices earned us?

We’re on the verge of losing everything we still have left, and half the population wants to make it worse. In fact, they will attack you if you get in the way of the corruption and destruction.

The masses were deceived then, and are deceived now. But the America we live in now is not the America our grandfathers thought they were fighting for.