One of the Greatest Generation from my hometown was a Navy Radioman who provided comms from landing craft to ships in the South Pacific. He was badly wounded in the Okinawa invasion.

While he was recuperating back home, He taught our Scout Troop semaphore and morse code. A fantastic man. He went on to be a national leader in the American Legion.

We will never again see amphibious landings such as were done on D-Day. With modern coms, aerial/satellite surveillance, smart weapons, and advances in drones, landing craft are easy targets. One reason I expect that China will not hazard an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. Or, if they do, it will be a turkey shoot.

https://notthebee.com/article/theyre-literally-trying-to-drive-twitter-bankrupt-elon-musk-discusses-censorship-by-advertisers-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-twitter-spaces

I wonder if Musk really understood just how pervasive wokeness is in business C-suites, and how fanatic they are about enforcing it?

That might have been an issue not readily apparent under all the blatant, overt bias promulgated by the FBI et al., which he says he underestimated although he knew the Twits were biased, he wasn’t aware of the depth of Fed involvement until the Twitter Files operation was in gear.

Back to D-Day, and the cost. The First Infantry Division (Big Red 1) reportedly took 2,400 casualties on that day, about a fourth of the the total allied count of 10,000 (over 4,000 dead).

On another level, think of planning and organizing that operation with pencil and paper; and think of sending men to the moon with little more computer capability than a high end smart phone, if that, and compare those feats to how we struggle to accomplish anything today.

John Kerry “mooned” the world once again; which is another way of saying that he showed his true self. (Trying to be more or less polite here.) Like most of his ilk, he is completely lacking in self awareness.

Nobody ever accused Kerry of exceptional intelligence or insight. His undergraduate grade average never rose above the so-called gentleman’s C. I’m just glad that someone like Eisenhower, USMA 1915, was in charge of Operation Overlord rather than a clown like Kerry.

WWII in Europe was a far simpler problem than climate change. Only a fool, and John Forbes Kerry is a pompous fool, would think otherwise.

And only fools would give up fossil fuels until an affordable, reliable, reasonably safe alternative is in place. My guess is that the Norwegians aren’t foolish enough to abandon their fossil fuels, the backbone of their prosperity and economic strength.

“The one-time US presidential candidate used a keynote address on the 79th anniversary of the allied landings in Normandy to make his case to an audience of industry leaders in Norway. . . . While Kerry said there were key differences between the fight against Nazi Germany and the battle to ease global warming, there are similarities.

‘Make no mistake, just as that was a fight for the future as much as anything we have ever faced, what we are seeing now is the same,’ he said. Kerry said the world was now in a decisive decade and the price of failure could carry greater consequences than those faced during the D-Day landings if the right choices are not made. . . . Unlike the fight against Hitler’s forces, the climate battle is not one against a single enemy, Kerry reasoned. ‘Today’s threat comes from all of us. It comes from the result of the things we do or avoid doing,’ he said.”

I don’t expect Mr. Teresa Heinz to give up his fleet of SUVs or his $12 million waterfront mansion on Martha’s Vineyard any time soon, though. If you have a strong stomach, you can read the rest of Kerry’s D-Day speech at https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/fight-of-our-times-john-kerry-channels-spirit-of-d-day-in-battle-against-climate-change/2-1-1462793