From the hell on the beaches at Normandy and beyond on June 6, 1944, the beginning of the end of the Third Reich commenced. Had the invasion not succeeded, the fate and future of Europe and the world beyond would have been in great jeopardy.
Watching the ceremony from Normandy today, listening to the spoken words and viewing the row upon row of heroes in their eternal resting places, imagining the horror faced by the soldiers that the picture above can't even begin to describe, seeing the beach and the waves today that were churning in heavy seas that day and the cliffs that hid German artillery and snipers, I can only thank these men who faced what I will most likely never face, and who acted with a level of bravery and courage that I can only hope that I would be able to match under the same circumstances.
As the years go by and fewer and fewer men and women remain who took part in D-Day, the liberation of France, of Europe and in the defeat of the Japanese, those who saved the world from madmen and regimes bent on world control and destruction, Thank You and God bless.
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3 comments:
On the 70th anniversary, I wonder who will attend. What happens when they are all gone. How will we continue to honor them?
By taking care of the world and opportunity they helped to give us.
mainstream answer mike...i'm touched
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