HISTORICAL ACCURACY? IMPORTANT, OR NOT

I’m a fan of historical accuracy, of a story that stands up to scrutiny not opinion,

My feeling is that the people involved in historical events deserve the decency of applied history.

How to apply history?

It’s all about the sources.

The old joke about settled history is, ‘if three people agree on the same thing, then it’s true.’

But people change, priorities shift, and what is agreed on one day may be disagreeable the next.

The pros say you need to do more than scroll the internet, repeat what you see on social media, and take a stand on a two-legged stool.

Will the final analysis be from artificial intelligence?

D-Day from Google AI:

 

D-Day, which took place on June 6, 1944, was the massive Allied amphibious and airborne invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II.

Codenamed Operation Overlord, it remains the largest seaborne invasion in history and successfully opened a second major front against Nazi Germany in Western Europe. 

 

A New American History

What would the response be if an elected official went on TV with a D-Day map and a sharpie and explained how the cross channel invasion really happened.

Or didn’t happen.

Would it matter much if the elected official decided to call D-Day a hoax?

Would we all agree that it would all have worked out better if they’d been in charge of the entire Operation Overlord?

Most presidents of my lifetime wore the uniform.

From Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford to Carter to Reagan to Bush they were all affected by WWII.

More from Google AI:

 

Fifteen U.S. presidents had no prior military service: 

• • John Adams

  • John Quincy Adams

  • Martin Van Buren

  • Millard Fillmore

  • Grover Cleveland

  • William Howard Taft

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Warren G. Harding

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Herbert Hoover

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Bill Clinton

  • Barack Obama

  • Donald Trump

  • Joe Biden 

2501 Families Missing Someone After D-Day

The common number of Americans killed on D-Day is 2501.

2501 men from families, communities; from states and regions who left their people never to come home.

They all need historical accuracy, deserve historical accuracy.

When a man who should know better can’t understand why people would join the service, they are not alone.

But there are 2501 families, moms and dads, who do know better.

Their boy never came home, a husband didn’t return, a dad became a memory, and life stopped for them all before slowly picking back up.

For a grown man entrusted with the nations strength and power to question anything service related in terms of motivation, courage, and the ability to follow orders, dangerous orders, is detrimental to historical accuracy.

When a nervous young hype-man fills a seat reserved for serious thought and action in the same administration decides to play war in a strike team costume questions arise, beginning with WTF?

 

PS:

Historical accuracy will remember this as a time of questionable decisions from decisive leaders on the wrong page.

 

PSS:

One request from a former Army medic: Don’t send soldiers out for casual killing, or a dismissive death.

Instead, make a plan, outline the goals, and train for the mission, not the camera.

The guys on beach weren’t there for likes, and clicks, and reviews.

They were there to survive and not get their friends killed.

Here at boomerpdx we bow our heads in respect. So should you.

Give thanks for the troops past, present, and future.

Well done, boys.