“Let’s move on with our life. When they stormed Normandy, they knew there were going to be casualties and there were going to be risks.”
— former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz on Fox News
The 83-year-old College Football Hall of Famer was complaining that the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences were postponing their football seasons due to the pandemic. Holtz was 7 years old when 156,000 Allied soldiers invaded Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6th, 1944. Over 4,000 young men died that day.
Like many of his age, Holtz likely grew up idolizing the men, and women, who sacrificed their lives in the fight against fascism. It’s pathetic he can’t tell the difference between a war and a game.
And if you’re inclined to think we’re in a war against COVID-19, then the only way to fight it is to wear a mask, keep your distance, and isolate if you have symptoms.
This essay of mine is about the World War II movie Saving Private Ryan and how it affected the Baby Boomers, the children of the Greatest Generation. They loved this movie about men who gave their all, but they themselves have given so little, in my opinion.
The Boomers were given the world, and what did they do with it?
