07/06/2026
D-Day 2026. It is important to honour and commemorate those who fought and died in the fight against fascism. It is important to remember those who gave their last breaths in that we might live ‘free.’
It is incredibly troubling to note that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday did not attend the international ceremony hosted in Langrune-sur-Mer to honour those who perished on D-Day. This was after he railed against Europe and blamed migrants for all our troubles - migrants it has to be noted flood EU shores predominantly on the back of completely and utterly failed US foreign policy.
Hegseth didn’t attend the commemorations after the safe space lecture he gave at the American cemetery - not because he had all his 6 kids in tow - bought and paid for by US taxpayers, and not because he couldn’t.
He didn’t attend because he wasn’t welcomed and the town of Langrune-sur-Mer made their views known.
They said…
‘He has very warlike views and it seems to us that this man does not share our democratic values," Sylvie Lamy Thepaut, a member of the municipal association Langrune en commun, told BFM TV.
A message on the association’s website called for Hegseth’s visit to be cancelled on the grounds that the Pentagon chief “espouses values contrary to democracy, human rights and peace” and had made “numerous anti-European remarks”, “warlike statements” and “American supremacist pronouncements".
“The honor of Langrune, that of France, and the memory of the young Allied soldiers – American, British, Canadian – who died on our beaches in the name of democracy would dictate canceling this individual’s visit,” the statement concluded.’
It has taken the US just 250 years to arrive at this shameful place.
As they say round these parts - ‘Lest we forget.’
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday marked the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings with a visit to Normandy, but did not attend the international ceremony hosted in Langrune-sur-Mer.…
