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Remembering D Day

07/06/2021 09:30:38 AM

Jun7

Today, June 6, marks the 77th anniversary of D-Day. On this day, 150,00 soldiers from a number of  Allied Nations, including the U.S. and Canada, began the process of bringing Hitler and Nazism, Yimach Shmam, to an end. An estimated 4000 Jews were among the fighting forces on that day. While tragically, six million Jews, over a third of our people, were slaughtered by beasts in under a decade, the Allied Nations' battle began on this date in 1944. From the events which began to transpire on this day, the evil which had spread across Eastern Europe was ultimately brought to an end. Only after the victory of the Allied Nations did entry to  the camps and photographs taken show to the world the worst evil ever perpetrated against a particular people, the Jewish people. It is important that we remember this day along with the dates of Kristallnacht, Yom Ha'Shoah, and other significant dates.

Almost eight  decades ago, the world began to see the horror which befell the Jewish people. Now the world needs to understand that while the Jewish people and the State of Israel are peace loving, we will never again be put in the position we were during the lifetimes of our parents or grandparents. Whether in Tel Aviv, Toronto, or anywhere else, we the Jewish people must cohesively stand up for our right to live and to practice the tenets of our heritage.

In the three plus decades of my active rabbinate, I have had the privilege of serving as a U.S. military chaplain and as a chaplain to chapters of Jewish war veterans in the U.S. and Canada. I am forever humbled by the veterans I have met along the way who served on or who remembered this day, June 6, 1944

Am Yisrael Chai.

Rabbi Howard Morrison

 

 

(written yesterday and posted on Facebook, June 6)

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