![]() My grandfather, US Army Sergeant Aaron Steltz, was there. The beginning of the end of Hitler’s reign of terror through Europe started on D-Day, June 6, 1944. These policies had only encouraged Nazi Germany’s rapid advance through Europe, and it was only after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany subsequently declaring war on the United States that our country went to war. Prior to WWII, Congress had barred the United States from even joining the League of Nations (a precursor to the United Nations) and had passed Neutrality Acts that codified isolationist policies as law. Just as there could be no retreat from the mission that day, there could also be no retreat from the responsibility that the United States had taken on that reached far beyond the shores of France.Īmerican isolationism, a mainstay of US foreign policy since the founding of the republic which only gained in popularity after WWI, came to an end on D-Day. There was no retreat and scarcely any refuge on the open, sandy beaches as they took endless fire from an entrenched, determined enemy. Their mission was to march forward towards the enemy, facing extraordinary danger and the horrors of war as bullets flew over their heads and their friends fell around them. With each footprint they left on the sands of Normandy on June 6, 1944, US soldiers were writing the future of our country. My grandfather, US Army Sergeant Aaron Steltz, was at D-Day
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