Al's summer reading, D-Day and stuff

Al Mohler has published his summer reading list. I fancy reading the one about the Battle of Britain, but it's a very "guys" kind of list - all about wars and soldiers and stuff.

Of course, yesterday was the 60th anniversary of D-Day. D stands for day, hence Jour-J in French. Today the leaders of France, the USA and the UK will meet at Bayeux, Arromanches, etc, to commemorate the beginning of the defeat of fascism in this part of Europe.

it's hard not to remember WWII in Bordeaux. I've posted before the photo of the ship scuttled by retreating Nazis that peeps above the water at low tide. Every time you pass the synagogue (which is not often - it's tucked down a back street) you see the long list of deportees - nos martyrs. As you walk down streets it is not hard to imagine troops marching through the city and years of living under occupation. Just about 200m from the Student Centre is the Centre Jean Moulin, the museum of the French Resistance with its poignant stories of teenagers caught and shot.

Fascism may be at bay in our parts of Europe, but atheism, secularism, nominalism, materialism and a million other isms still have the cities under their control. The battle is not usually bloody, but more than life and death are at stake. Does our courage, creativity and commitment match up to the people we remember just now ?

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Larry said…
Great post... and by great i mean challenging!

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