MY SAY: TODAY IS THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA’S ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR 11
There is always much quibbling about Franklin Delano Roosevelt with some well deserved criticism for his domestic and economic agenda; for his coldness to the plight of the trapped Jews of Europe; for heartless immigration policies that were a travesty of Emma Lazarus’ poem; for sitting out so much time while England faced the brunt of the war….and so on.
I have moved past all the foregoing. Roosevelt had the conviction to cooperate “illegally” with Churchill in intelligence gathering; he had the magnetism to inspire patriotism and enlistment and building our tanks and ships and planes by civilians; and, finally America’s entry into World War 2 was the beginning of the end of Hitler and the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Who among our leaders can do that today?
For that I am and remain grateful.
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