[MEG33]

With Deepest Gratitude ~ Remembering DDay
June 6,1944

Normandy..2008

Normandy 1944 Guide
Roosevelt DDay Prayer

[OESY]

Excellent link, Meg. I didn't know Encyclopedia Britannica has gone online and presumably is competing with wikipedia.org.

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[JustAmy]

Wow ..... great links, Meg. Thank you for Remembering D-Day.

We are a grateful nation.

[jaycee]

Lovely picture. Links great! I wish they would let our Presidents pray today!

[La Enchiladita]

That flowery meadow scene makes a poignant, wordless statement. Very beautifully done, MEG.

Thread posted by FReeper MNJohnnie: Ernie Pyle from Normandy..D-Day June 1944

"As one officer said, the only way to take a beach is to face it and keep going. It is costly at first, but it’s the only way. If the men are pinned down on the beach, dug in and out of action, they might as well not be there at all. They hold up the waves behind them, and nothing is being gained.

Our men were pinned down for a while, but finally they stood up and went through, and so we took that beach and accomplished our landing. We did it with every advantage on the enemy’s side and every disadvantage on ours. In the light of a couple of days of retrospection, we sit and talk and call it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were able to stay on."

[gardengirl]

Thanks, Meg! The poppies are beautiful, and that pic says it all.

[Billie]

The poppies are absolutely gorgeous, and the blue flowers behind them look like the sea, or ocean. Thank you both for the DDay post. A sad day to remember for sure.