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Dunkirk, American Style
By Chris Buskirk| September 1, 2017
The scenes of destruction wrought on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Harvey cannot do other than move even the stoniest heart. One aches at the sight of people who have lost everything, including loved ones. Yet amid these scenes of suffering and anguish there also shines a glimmer of hope. As I watched footage of ordinary people piloting their fishing boats down the streets of their flooded neighborhoods, plucking strangers from their upstairs bedrooms and rooftops and taking them to safety, I could not help but recall the events of September 1940.
Britain was in grave peril. Hitler’s armies were in the process of overrunning the Low Countries and France. After Belgium’s untimely surrender, the entire British Expeditionary Force and their allies—300,000 men and all of their vital war materiel—came under threat of imminent destruction. They were trapped. Hitler’s armies were the hammer and Dunkirk’s rocky coastline was the anvil: crush the British forces and England would be laid bare.
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