NO SMOKING
It's bad for your health ...
Here’s my contribution:
Back when I was in my 20s I worked security for a major university. One of the campus cops - I’ll call him Bill - was older than most of us. He was also fat and slow. Bill didn’t look anything like those slick cops you see on TV. Some of the younger campus cops made fun of him. Bill never argued back. He just took it.
Well, one day Bill brought a briefcase to roll call. He didn’t say a word, he just opened it up in front of us. In that briefcase were citations and rows of medals. Bill was an Army Ranger who landed on D-Day.
Nobody made fun of Bill after that.
NO SMOKING
It's bad for your health ...
This is also the anniversary of the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918 in which the US Marines defeated the Germans and turned the tide of WWI.
The best meme is one with the iconic landing craft picture on D- Day and the quote - “college kids leaving their safe space”.
My dad was on a troop ship that landed in Brisbane Australia several days after D day. That’s when he learned about it. His only impression of Australia was that they were given mutton for every meal. That and the heat made everyone sick
He later landed on Luzon with MacArthur
"How could that be?" the Frenchman harrumphed. "Every American needs a passport to enter France." The American replied, "my previous visit to France began on June 6, 1944. When I landed on Omaha Beach, no one there asked me for my passport."
EVER FORWARD: Omaha Beach 
And today we have “Republican” members of Congress who are ready and willing to throw all of those sacrifices in the trash.
My dad was in Operation Dragoon which was originally scheduled for 6 June but was delayed until 15 August.
The 36th Infantry Division was part of Operation Dragoon, a Division that I served in later, and my dad faced the German Luftwaffe, whose planes I was jumping out of to earn my German jump wings, of course, later.
My father and I had somewhat different experiences with the Germans.
Going to watch The Longest Day and the listen to Trump’s Normandy Speech.
They’re all dead Jim.
Go to the cemetery on Memorial day and see how many stones are now undecorated. Even the people who remember them are dying.
Children of some considerable age don’t even know what D-day is let alone anything about it or remembrances.
My late Dad was in Italy at the time playing toss-the-grenade with Kesselring’s boys. He used to chuckle relating Clark’s decision to provide the country with a large morale boost by taking Rome, the first enemy capital to fall in that war. Costly mistake, actually, but I can tell you the exact date. 5 June, 1944. Then, the next day...
R.I.P. uncle Bill Warner. He was there and made it home to lead a very productive life…”A Life On Borrowed Time”.