75 Years Ago Today...

[High Exposure 5,661]

American soldiers, sailors, and airmen - along with our British and Canadian partners - took the first steps to save the world.

Remember them.

 

[SmittyMHS 603]

Bless them all!

[Sniper 6,372]

36 minutes ago, High Exposure said:

Remember them.

I certain am today. Flying the special flag in their honor!!!

 

[Mrs. Peel 7,157]

Thanks for posting this, @High Exposure. I was actually coming on here to post SOMETHING about it... seemed inexcusable to let the anniversary go unmentioned.

When I try to imagine what it must have been like for each successive wave of soldiers storming the beaches at Normandy - crawling over the bodies of those cut down before them --- wow! It truly boggles the mind. I would argue we're much too loose today with the word "hero" - we even use it for athletes for goodness sakes! But D-Day? That certainly was heroic! . 

And it's particularly (and strangely) sobering to be looking at the TV right now and to see that there was some serious training accident at a West Point training center this morning. 1 dead, many hospitalized apparently. Just a poignant reminder of continuing military sacrifice.