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What about the Pacific wars?
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Posted on Jun 08 2004
It seems that President Bush’s re-election campaign media team has really blown it this time. They did a good job of publicizing his visit to Normandy for this week’s 60th anniversary of the invasion of Europe. However, he has completely ignored the near simultaneous invasion of the Marianas. This, at a time when he desperately needs every possible military vote, unless he wants to go into history as the second one-term president from the Bush family tree.
With only a week left before the June 15 anniversary of the invasion of the Marianas, it is inconceivable that the president’s men can find a way to apologize for his indifference toward this great strategic victory in the Pacific War, which also cost America thousands of dead and wounded.
Not only is this an insult to the veterans who served in the Pacific during World War II, it is also an affront to the U.S. citizens now living in the US Territory of Guam and the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
It sure would be fun to listen to George’s response to a CNN reporter who might ask the question, “Mr. President, what tribute will you be paying to the Navy, Marine Corps and Army Air Force veterans of the Pacific War during their 60th anniversary celebration just one week after the anniversary of the Army’s invasion of Europe?”
Don A. Farrell
Marpo Heights, Tinian
