Thinking about how many casualties happened at Normandy ...

[marble falls]

[MaryMagdaline]

1. When will they ever learn?

Apt song. I guess the killing in WWI wasn’t enough.

[msongs]

2. american gun owners have killed more americans this year than did the germans on d day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/06/more-americans-were-shot-death-by-march-this-year-than-died-d-day/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ab5cb8885cda

[classof56]

3. I'm always saddened by Carl Sandburg's poem...

Grass
BY CARL SANDBURG
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. 
Shovel them under and let me work— 
                                          I am the grass; I cover all. 

And pile them high at Gettysburg 
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. 
Shovel them under and let me work. 
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: 
                                          What place is this? 
                                          Where are we now? 

                                          I am the grass. 
                                          Let me work.

[lunatica]

4. I'm always struck at the beauty of nature grown back in the killing fields.

When the Germans invaded Russia they wiped out entire villages whose inhabitants were Jews. They marched them into the woods and killed them and buried the bodies in mass graves. Then Nature covers it all with the beautiful forests and meadows again. If humans go extinct it’s good to know the earth will return to it’s natural beauty.