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What do you think about when you hear the word "invasion"? Do you perhaps recall the invasion of June 6, 1944, when millions of British, United States, and Canadian forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi control?
Or do you think of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition? Or perhaps you think of the so-called “British Invasion” of 1964, when the rock group The Beatles landed in New York and brought a new brand of music to America? If you are an entomologist, perhaps you might think of the invasion of killer bees that was sparked in the fall of 1957, when twenty-six Tanzanian queen bees were accidentally released from a research facility in Brazil.
Whatever you think of, one thing is clear: Events are called invasions because of the immense impact that they have on a place or a group of people. One more thing is also clear: Invasions can be positive or negative, depending on your perspective.
This Advent, let’s add to our list of invasions the most important…
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