Today marks the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, the American troops landing at Normandy, the turning point in the war started by one of the most hate-consumed men in history, Adolf Hitler.
When my daughter was 15 months old, I took her to Normandy Fourth of July weekend for a family wedding. Normandy is one of those places where you can tell, as soon as you start driving through the countryside, under the checkers of light that splash over swaths of fields, that something happened there. Like Gettysburg, you can almost sense the ghosts of the past. Following Rosemary, as she toddled along Omaha Beach, I was surprised to see that people had built a vacation home right on top of it, not that many years after so many people sacrificed their lives there. Rosemary touched the sand, made her way through the graveyard. We listened to inspiring stories of heroes, of gratitude, of victory over the hatred of one man, hatred that spread to his army, hatred that could only be stopped by many armies coming together against him.
In the end, hate didn't win. It isn't a strategy. Born of defeat, it will never conquer those who build freedom.
Sometimes I wonder where hate comes from. RedState posted on Facebook "Uncle Sam is not your baby daddy. Get a job and get off welfare." Such hatred for Mothers of babies is not the ticket to victory, prosperity, or national security. Women who want normal are our constituency, not the enemy. RedState does not mean the USSR. We are not the party of deadbeat dads -- that's "BlueState" to throw women and children on the street and the payoff is getting to absorb the prostitutes of the Soviet past.
Instead of defacing Uncle Sam, try articulating a vision of starting salaries of $250,000 with office hours of 9:30 to 2:30. Most single Mothers live paycheck-to-paycheck in low-wage jobs. If they live with their Mother, and Grandmother takes on childcare, they can afford to subsidize employers. Even successful, married women require full family participation to make it work.
The Uncle Sam poster wasn't designed to create widows and orphans, it was designed to inspire heroes. Those who answered the call fought to protect women and children, not to ridicule them. To do so is a disgrace to the memory of those who served.
Today, we are in a different kind of war, a jihad, which comes from a culture where women and Mothers are not treated well, a culture of hate.
Be a hero. Hire a Mom. Support a child. While we may never be chosen for the the kind of heroism the troops at Normandy displayed that day, we can all make courageous choices in our daily lives to create a culture of freedom that honors their memory, one they would be proud of.
