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Posted on 05/31/2014 9:32:56 PM PDT by JustAmy
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It’s hot where you are!
I’m trying not to complain too much now because it’s gonna get worse! LOL
I am thankful for my wonderful A/C.
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Beautiful, Kitty.
(((HUGS)))
Thank you for the anniversary card, MEG!
My pleasure, Dave!
(((HUGS)))
Read: Joshua 24:2,13-18
Recently I asked my older sister, Mary Ann, if she remembered when our family moved into the house where we lived for many years. She replied, “You were about 9 months old, and I remember that Mother and Daddy stayed up all night packing boxes and listening to the radio. It was June 6, 1944, and they were listening to live coverage of the Normandy Invasion.”
Today marks the 70th anniversary of what has become known as D-Day—a military term for the day on which a planned operation will begin. Over the years, D-Day has also come to mean a moment of decision or commitment in our personal lives.
At one point in ancient Israel, their leader Joshua, now an old man, challenged the people to another kind of D-Day. After years of struggle to possess their inheritance in the land God had promised them, Joshua urged them to faithfully serve the One who had been so faithful to them (Josh. 24). “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,” he said. “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (v.15).
The day we decide to follow the Savior is the greatest turning point in our life. And each day after, we can joyfully renew our commitment to serve Him.
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D Day:
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war...In the military, D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day of the Normandy landings — initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.
Source: Wikipedia
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
~George S. Patton
Amen.
Have a Wonderful Day, MEG, as We Remember....
Thank you for the quotes, triaham...The contrast on DDay and today struck me.
I do thank God that men..most so very young... lived.
I recall sitting by my mother at our church on DDay as we gathered to pray for our troops. I was 11.
All over the nation people gathered to pray nnce the invasion was announced.
Thank you, ML.
Thanks for sharing your story, MEG. I hope that others do so as well on this thread. I can only imagine how those who were there felt, knowing what was happening, and knowing how important it was to their lives, the lives of their loved ones, and the future of our country.
Daily BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS ARE POSTED by one or more of the three of you mainly, ON THE DAILY BREAD, ...
ALONG WITH WISE COUNSEL. Sometimes it is very moving... tender, wise funny, cute, comforting, thoughtful, etc.
Thank you for posting faithfully.
It brightens my day always.
Courage is being scared and doing the job anyway,,Bless them always.
God Bless your grandfathers for their service in this great cause.
God bless the people in England, moose, who suffered, at home, bombings, buzz bombs, civilian casualties and losses and severe rationing of food items and goods. We had rationing...but my family had a large garden, a cow and chickens to see us through food rationing .
We lived in a very small town in Texas...I remember seeing German POWs in trucks(There was a POW camp a few miles from us)..and convoys of tanks and trucks on the highway being transported from factories to the Port of Houston(I would guess) for transport overseas.
My father was 51 and 4f in 41, my brother too young. My older cousin was a Submariner in WW2.
We gathered around the radio listening to war news.
Both of my parents served in WWII, but neither was in combat. My husband’s father was a bombardier who if I recall correctly, flew through the Brenner Pass.
Thank you, geologist..The Mayor posts Our Daily Bread on Amy’s Place as well as on The FReeper Canteen and some daily Prayers for Our Troops and Our Nation threads.
I’m glad you enjoy our graphics and posts at Amy’s Place.
I thank them for their service.
Dangerous duty for your father in law!
On a lighter note..Hershey’s Chocolate went to war with our troops...I have a Hershey bar wrapper saved in my scrapbook that I received from some govt official visiting my father..It was my only chocolate bar during the war.
I still think chocolate is one of the basic food groups and am rarely without..LOL
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