Comments on: D-Day Revisited: The Airborne Museum’s Disturbing Glorification of Ronald Reagan

By: Josée Allen

Josée Allen — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:15:41 +0000

This is so sad. I did meet, many years ago,in Texas, one of the men who were parahuted in and got tangled up in things while being fired on , but it wasn’t Ronald Reagan. He was a modest man and would be horrified by this usurping of glory away from the young men who did the fighting and dying. Unfortunately one gets used to this jingoism (I am a Brit expat living in Texas ) and this was the second annoying example today of an edited version of the truth. All I can do is try to put the record straight when yet again the USA has “The World’s Biggest Pizza” or ” We won the War”.

By: Bryan Piper

Bryan Piper — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:26:20 +0000

Don’t give a s–t about Reagan he was a great president but other than that ok. The tribute should be left to the men who stormed the beaches ans jumped from the c47s men like my grandfather who jumped into this town with the 82nd don’t leave the glory to one man leave it to all who fought this horrid war.

By: Ashish chitra

Ashish chitra — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:47:14 +0000

I visited Normandy about 3 months ago and was quite unpleasantly surprised but the emphasis placed on the role of Ronald Reagan in the D-Day landings. Almost most as if Ronald Reagan played an active role actually fighting in the war – but he did not.

Whatever the medical constraints the fact is he was stateside during the fighting producing educational and promotional films to help the war effort- which bike self is not a lower task.

The fact remains that Eisenhower was a much more appropriate President to be commemorated and given pride of place at the Museum. Yes, Regan gave a fantastic speech – but that was all.

It was like visiting a church of the Republican party. Even then there are some more appropriate Heroes with correct Republican party antecedent who can be commemorated – George Bush (senior) and John McCain (the father and the son) come to mind.

It was sad viewing, to be honest, for the wilful highjacking of history and forceful appropriating of the memory of the most revered and haloed group of heroes.