EUROPE IN DENIAL ABOUT AMERICA’S ROLE IN THE WAR
AMERICAN CEMETERIES AND MONUMENTS LEFT OUT OF TOURS, OFTEN HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
(hidden Marine cemetery at Belleau Wood right -photos courtesy G.Duff)
I have toured most of the battlefield sites of World War 2, the ETO at least. Europe has been having wars for thousands of years, and though there is little left at most sites, I have visited what remains, from the Roman wars onward.
Few of the tour groups from Britain on cheap bus vacations do more than see the “cookie cutter” sites near the D Day landings of the British only or the nearby, few and sad, World War I sites.
America has a wonderful cemetery at Omaha Beach, never seen, never featured and a large number of Battlefield Monuments which are actually hidden from the public.
Yes, it is actually done, road signs removed, or signs pointing the wrong way. Resentment against America is expressed this way, dishonoring our dead thru trickery and ignorance.
(American monument – closed and locked)
I don’t want to go into the two world wars at length. Germans claim World War I was their righteous war. Few know the truth about how British ignorance is negotiating with Russia and Germany brought on World War 2 or the real role the French played. I have read the documents themselves.
They make the history we teach utterly false.
(Monument to famed battle of Agincourt hidden in French cornfield)
We live with our lies. We cater to those who disrespect our dead.
(Bastogne, Belgium monument built by people there to honor Americans who fought there, unknown and forgotten.)
Most of this is in France, where a generation has grown up being taught that America is an enemy and did nothing to save France, repeatedly, during the last century. Today’s politics has nothing to do with two hundred years of friendship and sacrifice.
This is unacceptable.
Nowhere on Earth are the honored dead less honored and more forgotten than in Europe.
(German military cemetery in Belgium)
(Author in Italian war cemetary in Belguim – WWI)
(Ossuary at Verdun, honoring French dead from WWI)
(Entrance to Ft. Fremont, Maginot Line – only one to resist German attack)
(Private remembrance by family of German killed in WW2)
(author with daughter at Ft. Doumont, Verdun)
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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