Honoring Heroes.

Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. During that day on June 6, 1944, heroes sacrificed their lives to liberate people from tyranny. The soldiers defeated Nazism. The Allied forces faced massive bullets, carnage, and loud noises. Yet, they courageously pressed onward to fulfill their duties. Nazism is about the promotion of the evils of racism, xenophobia, genocide, and militarism. That is why many progressives stood up to defeat Nazism. The Allied forces called D-Day Operation Overlord. It was planned by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other leaders. Eisenhower and Roosevelt gave inspirational words to the Allied soldiers before they reached Normandy, France. It involved a distraction (using cardboard cut outs to manipulate the Nazis) before the invasion among the French beaches of Normandy. Many people died. The soldiers at D-Day were from America, Canada, Britain, Australia, Poland, and other nations. Many people suffered injuries. Yet, the Allied forces were successful in their just, august cause. Many forces climbed cliffs, and others traveled up the beaches (from Omaha to Juno) to fight too.

Yes, many African Americans were involved in D-Day. In fact, a recent book entitled, "Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home, and at War" by Linda Hervieux. One African American medic named Waverly Woodson, Jr. (his wife was Joan Woodson) saved the lives of at least 200 people on D-Day. Black women and black men were heavily involved in WWII. D-Day represents the beginning of the end of the evil empire of Hitler. The Normandy liberation involved the largest amphibious invasion in human history. After D-Day, Paris and all of France would be liberated from the Nazis. World War II was the bloodiest war in human history.

It is our responsibility to make sure that we fight evil. We honor the heroes of D-Day by doing our best, by helping our neighbors, and by standing up against any injustice. That means that we honor the principle of freedom for black people, we respect immigrants, we respect migrants, we honor women, we abhor imperialism, we believe in an end to the corruption in the prison system, and we love the true precept of advancing democratic freedoms. This is our aim, and we still believe in the Dream of justice for humanity after 75 years.
Notre objectif de liberté humaine est juste. Nous croyons en la vérité et la justice.

Yesterday was the Birthday of a legendary person. She defended civil rights and is an advocate of children. She worked hard to inspire poverty to be acknowledged by a lot of Americans back in the 1960's and beyond. She inspired both Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy to speak about the harmful consequences of poverty towards especially poor African Americans of the Deep South. That is why she motivated the creation of the Poor People's Campaign. Her name is Sister Mary Wright Edelman. She is now 80 years old, and she was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina. Her family encouraged her to pursue a great education. that is why she came into Spelman College at Atlanta, Georgia. She studied abroad in Paris and Switzerland. By 1959, she became very much involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

She protested for human equality in Atlanta, Georgia, and earned her law degree. Edelman was the first African American woman admitted to The Mississippi Bar. She began practicing law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Mississippi office, working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. She also helped establish the Head Start program. For decades, she has lived her life to help the poor, children, the disabled, and the oppressed. I wish Sister Mary Wright Edelman more blessings.


By Timothy