As many people know, today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day.  For those who lived through it, D-Day was the day on which the Allies made their decisive assault on the Third Reich, a day of immense carnage and pain that led, after many more months of deadly and sustained warfare, to the fall and collapse of Adolf's Hitler's ambitions of a 1,000 year Aryan empire.  It is a day that the West should never forget.  We should never forget to honor and remember those who gave their lives, for they died without knowing the outcome.

    How difficult it is to measure the net worth and effect of our actions.  Likewise, how arrogant it is to assert what we do today means in the counsel of God.

     

    In the end, all we can be is thankful.  Thankful for many things, yes, but supremely thankful that however difficult it is to understand what such pain means, purpose remains.  Vision prevails.  Wisdom continues to reign.

    And how good it is that it is not our own.