Jeb Bush on the 70th Anniversary of VE Day

ICYMI: JEB BUSH: ANNIVERSARY OF VE DAY REMINDS US: WE MUST TAKE SIDES
 
"On this 70th Anniversary of VE Day, we remember the fallen, we regret the long silence of the good, and we honor the brave men and women who silenced the tormentors and freed Europe.”
 
Governor Jeb Bush
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May 8, 2015
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Today is the 70th Anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany. The Allied victory in Europe is reason for great celebration and yet another opportunity to express our gratitude to the generation of Americans who fought and sacrificed in World War II.
It is also a time for solemn remembrance of one of the most painful chapters in human history. In April of 1945, General Eisenhower sent a telegraph to the Army Chief of Staff George Marshall. Marked “Marshall’s eyes only,” it read: “We continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I have visited one of these myself and I assure that whatever has been printed on them to date has been an understatement.”
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And yet, even today, even while the survivors are still with us, there are those who again call for the destruction of the Jewish people. These voices sometimes speak in new languages in places like Tehran to Damascus. Or they preach in the very same European cities from which Jews were sent to the camps. Or they are finding a new home, and a new expression of anti-Semitism, by demonizing the Jewish state on college campuses.
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And we must keep the solemn promise that was made when World War II ended: Never Again.
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God willing, one day the cost of peace will be cheap and unthreatened by the aspirations of tyrants. But until that day, and especially on this day, we remember the words of Elie Weisel: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
On this 70th Anniversary of VE Day, we remember the fallen, we regret the long silence of the good, and we honor the brave men and women who silenced the tormentors and freed Europe.