Why You Should Read Them
The Legacy of, and to, Grandchildren
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When we leave this earth, our greatest legacy lays with our grandchildren. Tom is blessed with eight grandchildren and two nieces (nine girls and one boy) with four in high school as of September 2023.
If they are fortunate to attend advanced placement world history classes in high school below is provided the total information they will receive from a popular advanced placement high school history text concerning the efforts of their great-grandparents. “Tragic” seems to be the best adjective:
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Of all the affronts offered, the worst is catapulting from D-Day 6 June to “The Last Days of Hitler”. There are few facts of substance worth remembering of the combat, except for Gen. George Patton, who did not have a D-Day command; his Third Army command began on 1 August 1944.
If we do nothing; nothing will result. D-Day Normandy, Salerno, South France, and the other invasions will fade into the oblivion known as “ancient history”.
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