January 03, 2011 02:31 PM
What The World Was Up To - January 3, 1945
Bastogne - January 3rd 1945 -"pimply grocers and mama's boys".
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News on this day in 1945 was split between the war and the Congress. On the war front; Allied armies were making progress beating back the German offensive in Belgium and the Battle Of The Bulge was coming to a swift end. In the Pacific, continued air attacks on Japan with continuous bombing runs from B-29's flying out of Guam. At home, The 79th Congress went back to work and Sam Rayburn was once again Speaker of The House amidst a celebratory "first day" atmosphere. Legislation was about to be argued over drafting farm workers of eligible age and everyone wondered how long the honeymoon with the new Congress was going to last.
I guess it's just always been that way.
Republican Congresses don't do honeymoons these days, in fact they are opposed to marriage except in certain cases.
On this day my father was a POW from this battle. Something that, perhaps, gave purpose to his life.
We can be damn grateful that many of these GI's came home and changed our country. They and those that fought the battle of the home front had seen the Great Depression and war, and they resolved a better world would come from it.
Now these brave men and women are leaving us forever at the rate of over 1000 per day. And sadly, the country they helped to save from Fascist aggression is splintered and industrially bankrupt.
We can only hope that the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will lead us into a new era, as
the men and women of The Greatest Generation did.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
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