D-Day, June 6, 1944

Today is the 64th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy (a.k.a. Operation Overlord). To most Americans (I hope), if they were to play a word association game, the phrase "June 6th" would provoke the response "Normandy invasion", just as one associates "December 7th" with "Pearl Harbor".

I have the feeling, though, that the historical memory associated with such famous dates in our country's history is going by the wayside. I fear that in the new multiracial, multicultural universalist America, wedded to transnational, globalist capitalism, the memory of D-Day is slowly being forgotten. And just so, some universalists hope, as not everyone around the world associates June 6th with D-Day. D-Day is a specific memory for the British and Americans; and the UK and the United States, are, still (sadly for the transnational progressives) countries with borders and defined specific histories.

Just one instance of this globalist, universalist forgetting: today's Google image, seen below:










What does this have to do with June 6th? On June 6th, 1599, Velazquez was born. Now, I like Velazquez as much as anyone, but in the United States, today's date has different associations.

Google is an American company; at least, it was founded in the United States in 1998 by Stanford University students, one of whom (Larry Page) is an American (the other, Sergey Brin, was born in Moscow). Several of Google's corporate executives are foreign-born, and while the company would be considered "American", it has the feel of a globalist transnational corporation -- which presumably is why they chose a decorative image of a famous Velazquez painting for their June 6th heading instead of a commemoration of the D-Day landings (D-Day = too American).

How many of our new fellow citizens from China or Mexico or Africa care a fig for the memory of D-Day, or Pearl Harbor, or even, say, the Kennedy assassination (November 22, 1963)? My answer: not many. How could they? They are not of the same people who built this country; they have no fellow feeling for this country, as they cannot look at images of the Pilgrims, or the Founding Fathers, or WWII G.I.s, and identify with them -- because they, the newcomers, do not look like them, do not share a kinship with them as Americans of European ancestry, and therefore, cannot adopt the history of America as their own. They are forever outside it; they reject the Founders and white Americans as oppressors (and racist, of course), and will continue to identify with and share a fellow feeling for their kinfolk in China or Mexico or Africa, even as they reside in the United States. Thus, we should not be surprised that Google, to take just one example, consciously fails to commemorate D-Day.