European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 9, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 17washington i Jinks Don t inspire George f. Will Washington now needs what physicists Call a a unified Field theory a an enveloping explanation of All Phenomena Large and Small. Here goes. After acrimonious debate senators recently voted 53-44 against doing away with their special parking privileges at National Airport. Baggage Laden commoners trudging from their Distant parking places past the vip lot next to the terminal arc known to mutter imprecations against the political class. Five Days after that vote the sign on the vip lot that read a reserved parking a supreme court justices members of Congress diplomatic corps was replaced with one that says a restricted parking a authorized users  no need to provoke the Public with superfluous information. The president who promised a Middle class tax Cut and says his health care plan involves neither Broad new taxes nor Price controls cannot fathom the Public a expanding cynicism. The marines arc looking for a few Good men Good at giving Snappy salutes to White House aides like that golfer who May look like he is golfing but really is doing research. When newspapers published pictures of David Watkins Ana another Clinton aide being saluted As they boarded a Marine helicopter on a Maryland Golf course an hours drive from the White House the initial White House response so Swift As to qualify As a reflex was to disseminate a falsehood. Deputy press Secretary Arthur Jones whose continuing presence on the Public payroll proves there is to penalty for Mere mendacity said this trip was really a a training Mission for the helicopter Crew. But that beast the Public must be pro uti ated and to its untutored eyes the trip looked like a Golf Outing. So Watkins has been fired. But he says he did no wrong. And indeed the White House has said that Watkins and his companion had to play All 18 holes a in order to familiarise them selves with All aspects of the course especially those aspects related to actual time of play and associated Impact of Security  a Public uncomprehending of such complexities is one of the burdens of the political class. Those who think that class is so steeped in insincerity that it can Register no honest emotion should Sec it now. It is genuinely grieving about the travails of Dan Rostenkowski. Imagine that one of Washington a most revered monuments crumbled. One has. Rostenkowski is a living Monument to Washington a fundamental a and completely bipartisan a business which is rent  seeking by private interests through the political process involves seeking wealth by Means of advantages conferred by government tariffs import quotas regulations tax Breaks Etc including disadvantages imposed on competitors. Washington a lawyer lobbyist class rents itself to rent seekers the principal instrument of rent seeking is the tax code. The principal Arena of rent seeking is the House ways and Means committee lately chaired by Rostenkowski. Washington is temporarily too distraught about Rostenkowski s fall to consider that his 36-Ycar Rise to his current status As an object of bipartisan affection has coincided with the collapse of the prestige of government and especially of Congress in the eyes of the Public that has become such a disappointment to the political class. The Public says that class More in sorrow than in anger seems incapable of understanding the Virtues of can do make things happen Guys. Like Rostenkowski. When those conducting the current requiem for that heavyweight Are asked what specifically Are the wonderful things he can do and make happen they find the question beside the Point. The Point they say is not substance but process a overcoming Quot gridlock a causing government to surge and Wax. The political class becomes quite Cross with the country when Little things like air port signs and helicopter trips and speculation by a committee chairman distract the country from the big picture which just now Means health care said to require Rostenkowski a attention. Well then Here a a timely idea. Washington where they protect the Public from offensive signs and where the Guy photographed in Golf togs boarding the helicopter after 18 holes says his trip had no a recreational purposes Quot and where Rostenkowski is revered a lets let Washington take Over health care. The unified Field theory of Washington today says that idea makes a sort of sick sense because a premise of most current health care plans is that the Public cannot understand much and hence cannot choose wisely and so needs expanded supervision from Washington. The unified Field theory proves the political class defining characteristic consistency. C Washington Post american courage carried the Day on a Day a Day. 1944, was Jess about the Quality of War Mak the Bronze Star the purple heart and Battle stars rep Al _ it it,. Of Jef Tim unions f int or Tifi of him. Ing machines than it was about the Quality of War making men. Most of the americans who came ashore at Normandy were untested in combat Many of them still teen agers just out of High school or off the farm. They faced hardened soldiers whose experience included the occupation of Europe. American forces had never experienced anything like it and would never again. My Uncle master sgt. Everett Thomas was among those who landed on Omaha Beach 50 years ago. He writes a about Daybreak june 6we could see the Beach and about that time the battleships cruisers and destroyers began firing. I w watched those huge projectiles go Over my head and 1 wondered How anyone could be alive on that Beach. Let me Tell you they were very much alive like a damned hornets nest. Those krauts were re 3dy to  soon Vve were close enough that the machine gun fire from the germans was spraying along the sides of the ship. I remember one Guy saying to me a sergeant they Are shooting at  i said to him a of course you nut. We arc the enemy.1 a when we began to Circle for a Landing it ready did get rough. The Waves were terribly High. The Navy pulled her in As close As they could Down went the ramp door and the troops As Well As the half tracks and big guns Buccan to disembark. That a when we really caught hell. The water was up to my neck. I had two real Short Guys in my platoon i grabbed both cd them by the neck and held them until they could Wade in my Uncle was wounded but kept going. He was twice treated at Field hospitals and rejoined his unit Asit advanced Inland toward St. To trance. He was awarded Cal Thomas resenting five campaigns. I am proud of him. His bravery Ano that of others including my father and two of his three other Brothers who also served was typical of a time and a people whose belief in Freedom and whose hatred of evil caused them to make great sacrifices. For Gen. Omar Bradley the memory of a Day at Omaha Beach was always a  decades later he said a even now it brings pain to recall what happened there. I have returned Many times to Honor the valiant men who died. On that Beach. They should never be forgotten. Nor those who lived to carry the Day by the Slimmest of margins.�?�. In the films we see on television and the folklore that has grown since a Day it is easy to forget How so Many lives were changed. For those who received a certain Telegram that came to too Many Homes they were changed in a unique Way a a the Secretary of War desires me to express deep regret that your husband son was killed in action on six june in France. Letter  it is also easy to forget that America and Freedom nearly lost. When they reached Shore the a Day forces were scattered without leaders and bewildered. At Omaha Only two of eight companies landed according to plan. Within 15 minutes of one company a Landing 1 so of its 187 men had been wounded or killed. The novelist Ernest Hemingway who had come ashore with the assault wrote. A the first second third fourth and fish Waves Lay where they had fallen looking like so Many heavily Laden bundles ,. It was individual courage that turned imminent defeat into Victory. Pfc. Edward Regan recalled �?o1 was a 22-year-old Guy from Olyphant Pennsylvania and i wondered whether i would live a til noon. Flattened out there in the tide j found out what fear was. 1 could see our men get hit. But-1 was a Rifleman and i had come there to do my duty As Best i could. We All fought Back. A i had come there to do my  it was an eloquent explanation for americans Victory. By 1 30 p.m., Bradley received a report that a troops for Merle pinned Down on beaches now advancing up Sci gets beyond them Quot on june 6, 1944, at the invasions inception president Franklin Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio. He began w Ith a prayer a almighty god our sons the Pride of our nation this Day have set out upon a mighty Endeavor a struggle to preserve our Republic our religion and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity Quot British prime minister Winston Churchill said a modern opinion resists this truth but great Battles won or lost change the entire course of events create new standards of values new moods new atmospheres in armies and in  a they succeeded in doing these things and More. They provided an example of How uncommon courage can come from common men who a More than self their country loved and mercy More than . Ackj0 in it tin&Quot.�?�_3