Take a moment today and remember the thousands of young, free men who gave their lives to destroy a brutal tyranny.
Take a moment today and remember the thousands of young, free men who gave their lives to destroy a brutal tyranny.
Yes!
Take pride in remembering the "greatest epoch of free achievment by free men that the world has ever known."
The Day of Days. May God bless all our heroes, then and now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdrvtiSmP1w&feature=related
Thanks for the CBS link, TonyinOhio. : )
“Blessent mon coeur d’une longueur monotone.”
My dad sometimes gets a bit annoyed by the way ‘D-Day’ is used to designate the Normandy invasion.
He likes to point out that every military operation has a d-day and an h-hour- when you’re writing an operations order you don’t know the actual date it will kick off, so it gets designated ‘d-day’ in the OPORD, and subsequent days are identified as ‘d+1’, ‘d+2’ and so on.
This objection may seem minor but I suppose he’s entitled to it, being a WWII vet who participated in his own share of d-days and h-hours.
It was supposed to be our longest day.
I noticed his tattoo and said “Oh - you were in the Navy!”
“Yes”
“WW II obviously?”
“Yes”
“My dad was on a minesweeper in the Pacific, what sort of ship were you on?”
“I drove a Higgin’s boat”
It was then that his wife piped up and said
“Harry was at Normandy on D-Day.”
I got up, shook his hand, said thank you with a tear in my eye, and then turned the conversation to other things. But the rest of the time that I would meet with them I was always in awe of what he did, and what he had gone through.
I was there with my wife and friends on Memorial Day. What an incredible monument to the heroes of D-Day!