Fulcrum

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There are moments that answer the question, “What would happen if everyone jumped at once?”

D-day. All the entire allied nations prepared for this event for months. And they kept is secret. This moment changed history.

No matter what we do, we stand in the shadow of these men.

Every choice we make in the modern world only adds glory to their name or makes their deaths out to be in vain. There is nothing we can do about that. It is the world in which we live: the world that these men created on this day in 1944.

My grandfathers did not stand on Normandy: one served before the War began, and one served in the Pacific theatre. They, too, brought history to this fulcrum, as important as Lepanto and more present because of time.

Everyone jumped at once, on to the beach. But they were not alone: men came in the air to be ready to meet them, and for months beforehand others came secretly: sappers, as it were, connecting with networks of underground agents that were risking their lives to help towards this moment.

What came after was momentous, but it all turned on this day fourscore years ago when our forefathers changed the world.

If you don’t know the history of what I’m talking about, damn you. Go find it yourself.

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These are fictionalized accounts. We can never know the fear they experienced, but we can experience awe. I cannot watch without crying. I don’t mean “misty-eyed”. We have no men like this.