I’m sharing an account of what happened on D Day back in 1944. And when you get to the end of that part, be sure to check out a comparison story.
The sunrise on June 6, 1944 (D Day) brought with it wave after wave of landing vessels. And they carried more than 150,000 American, British, Canadian, and French ground troops. They were the ones who stormed fifty miles of coastline, in Northern France, that the Germans fiercely defended.
Strong currents pushed the Americans 2,000 yards south of Utah Beach. And that forced them to march that distance back to the intended landing areas to seize German fortifications.
But they still secured Utah by the evening of D Day.
The Germans were aware of the importance of the sector designated Omaha Beach. And they knew the Allies would need to connect and secure the beachheads together. So, they made certain it was heavily defended. Fortifications and elevated terrain meant the American landing on Omaha would be the bloodiest that day.
4426 casualties is the official number for that bloody day. Men stormed beaches with artillery, machine guns, and bombs from planes filling the air. That had to be mighty scary stuff. But they still moved ahead courageously, in the middle of all that chaos. Because they fought for freedom.
Now.
Keep those D Day pictures in your head as I share what unimaginable horrors the world faces in this much more modern age. Horrors known, collectively, as “climate change.”
Here’s a paragraph, from an article I found, that talks about the consequences of foolish human existence in such a fragile world. This is scary stuff. Prepare yourself.
This paragraph talks about what happens if ocean currents change.
_ A shutdown of that ocean current could dramatically alter phenomena as varied as global weather patterns and crop yields. Messing with complex systems is chilling precisely because there are so many levers: If the temperature of the sea surface changes, precipitation over the Amazon might too, contributing to its deforestation, which in turn has been linked to snowfall on the Tibetan plateau. We may not even realize when we start passing points of no return—or if we already have. “It’s kind of like stepping into a minefield,” Armstrong McKay said. “We don’t want to find out where these things are by triggering them.” _
That’s the kind of nonsense “they” use in public schools to scare kids. Notice how things “might” happen. And how it’s all tied together. So, if one part fails, the whole world fails. And we “may not even realize when we start passing points of no return. Or if we already have.
But it’s one thing to scare kids. It’s quite another thing for actual adults to buy into such fear tactics. As the older folks used to say, “You’re old enough to know better.” And to help offset all those Negative Nancy’s out there, here’s a rhyme for the kiddos:
In This Life
You might win a few things in this life,
And you might even win a whole lot.
But you’ll lose everything if you don’t trust the King
Who has given you all that He’s got.
Know that nothing is too hard for God.
He can help you through all of your fears.
If your gold turns to rust, or your diamonds to dust,
Only God can dry all of your tears.
Make the most of the moments you have.
They fly by in the blink of an eye.
Don’t waste time in the dark, jump inside of the ark
Of God’s love. Kiss the old life goodbye.
© 2015
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