Not that I have been posting that regularly recently, but due to other commitments, I will not be posting to the weblog from 8-20 June 2007. I hope that a new and improved posting regime, including a return to regular, daily posting of the Bible Study for the Day as well as periodic posting of other Worldview features will begin around 21 June.

And sometimes we forget that Americans are not the only ones paying the price. We are not, nor have we ever been, in this fight alone. Our allies’ soldiers need support and love as much as our own soldiers do, unfortunately they often come from countries where such support and love can be hard to come by.

63 years ago today, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops under the command of General Dwight D Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy, France to open the Allied push to end World War Two. The sacrifice made by the men who engaged in that battle that day served as a bulwark against the threat the Nazis posed to the entire world.

The Six-Day War began. I believe that this conflict, more than any other single event in the history of the modern Near East, helps define the current crises that plague the entire region, simply because it set the stage for so much of what has followed.
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