Obama's D-Day speech didn't mention troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan

In his American Thinker blog, William Tate notes that President Obama did not mention our men and women in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan.

See for yourself:

Friends and veterans, we cannot forget. What we must not forget is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and the selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century. At an hour of maximum danger, amid the bleakest of circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found within themselves the ability to do something extraordinary. They fought for their moms and sweethearts back home, for the fellow warriors they came to know as brothers. And they fought out of a simple sense of duty - a duty sustained by the same ideals for which their countrymen had once fought and bled for over two centuries.

That is the story of Normandy - but also the story of America; of the Minutemen who gathered on a green in Lexington; of the Union boys from Maine who repelled a charge at Gettysburg; of the men who gave their last full measure of devotion at Inchon and Khe San; of all the young men and women whose valor and goodness still carry forward this legacy of service and sacrifice.

Obama is our commander-in-chief, soldiers and sailors--let me emphasize, who are under his command--are dying for our country, and Obama can't offer words of encouragement to them, or praise their mission.

Oh...those wars began during George W. Bush's presidency.

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