There were many D-Days in WW 2. Normandy was huge and deadly and so many brave Americans/Canadians/Brits lost everything.
Dad was in a few invasions in the Pacific. Every pissant Island was an invasion. Some were really awful for the marines/army.
God Bless the men who fought for the allies in WW 2. Our last war fought to WIN.
Tough old guy.
Salute!
Forgive me for forgetting the Navy. These guys had it rough. Kamikaze was no joke, neither were submarines.
I have noticed 82nd AB guys get shorter and shorter with each jump.
I live in the home of one of those vets.
He was in the 101st Airborne and landed behind enemy lines on D-day in such a glider (Waco’s ? http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/normandy/airborneAssault/waco.html), he parachuted into Holland and was trucked into the Bulge. He and his wife were both childhood friends of my father and a close friend of my wife and I.
When his widow moved into a retirement home, we bought their home.
Leon was a great humble (little) man.
Most of those brave young men who stormed the beaches at Normandy 75 years ago were only in their twenties, a few even in their late teens. When I see many of today’s generation of young people especially those on college campuses who suffer suffer from perceived microaggressions when they might hear a word contrary to their leftist world view and need safe spaces with coloring books to cope, I fear we might never again see a generation of young people like those who stormed those beaches. Thanks to leftist indoctrination we have created a generation of eunuch pajama boys and screaming feminists in handmaidens robes and pussy hats. Pray God that in our time of need there might be a few young people with the courage and dedication of their grandfathers and great grandfathers who stormed those beaches 75 years ago