Posted on 06/06/2021 4:06:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ver-sur-Mer (France) (AFP) - A memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles is to be unveiled on Sunday in northern France, a tribute seen as a long overdue commemoration of their sacrifice.
The British Normandy Memorial, inscribed with the names of 22,442 men and women who lost their lives during the invasion of Nazi-occupied France in the summer of 1944, will open on a hillside in the Normandy village of Ver-sur-Mer on the 77th anniversary of the landings.
It overlooks Gold Beach, one of three beaches where British forces landed on the morning of June 6, 1944 to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation.
The memorial -- constructed at a cost of £33 million ($47 million) met by both the UK government and private donors -- is the first such in Normandy to commemorate those who fell under British command.
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My God it is staggering the sacrifice. Long live the remembrance and never forget why we fight.
I hope there is no recognition of Bernard Montgomery
Amen.
Is a Bernard Montgomery a breed of dog?
He was one of Ike’s best buds.
It’s not like he did anything important, like plan the invasion, and command the land forces during it…
They went to some faraway hell and bled out their young lives for an idea that we have seen stolen by God-hating lawless thugs in the last election.
They can have died for something or for nothing...that is up to us...
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