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Omar M. Campbell: D-Day was missing
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I read, re-read, and had my wife double-check for any mention of D-Day in the June 6 and June 7 issues of the Steamboat Pilot & Today. The only reference to honoring those veterans of that epic event was in the often vapid Mallard Fillmore cartoon. Mallard says that June 6 is the 15th anniversary of his comic strip: "On this day 65 years ago, the 'D-Day' invasion was launched to save Europe from Hitler. He always has to top me."
Not one word elsewhere in the two issues. Yet I see a lot of space (25 column inches) used for an innocuous article such as "Southern funk comes West" and many more inches for canned commentary from the Associated Press.
Remembering the many thousands of American, British, Canadian, French and other partisans who fought and died on the beaches of France should dwarf the significance of the ordinary, mundane news.
One would think the oft-touted editorial committee of six would have thought of and selected the most important event in World War II to commemorate and to eulogize on June 6 and/or 7. Instead it was to hype a rock band and an unneeded new post office at a congested, inconvenient and dangerous intersection.
A disgusted World War II veteran,
Omar M. Campbell
Steamboat Springs
Comments
flower (anonymous) says...
I am not a war veteran, but I too noticed this 'oversite'. I do not think this is the time for us to forget, because history will repeat itself. I think your generation will always be above and beyond those today. I commend you and your commerades. thank you.
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