Elements of Happiness | Donald N. Wright | 2000
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The gospel in our lives gives us as Saints the most reason to be happy with our lives even during difficult times.
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"It seems most appropriate that we should not pass this day without recognizing the remarkable gift given to us some 56 years ago today. It was on that day that Allied forces, some 175,000 strong, fought their way ashore in Normandy to begin the final phase of the worst worldwide conflict in recorded history. That generation of young men, living and born during the Great Depression, gave of themselves in a way we almost seem to have forgotten. These soldiers portrayed a selflessness so dramatic and powerful that journalist and author Tom Brokaw has represented them as “the greatest generation” in his biographical account of their lives. He wrote:
They left their ranches in Sully County, South Dakota, their jobs on the main street of Americus, Georgia, they gave up their place on the assembly lines in Detroit and in the ranks of Wall Street, they quit school or went from cap and gown directly into uniform. [Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation (New York: Random House, 1998), xix]
Indeed, as the noted biographer/historian Stephen Ambrose wrote concerning these men who offered so much:
None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at
