They gave all of their tomorrows for our today

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Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah and Omaha. Names that will forever be remembered.

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President Reagan's speech at the 40th anniversary. I've posted it before, but it's a great speech about a great event.

May we never forget their sacrifices.

God bless 'em all

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It's good to remember D-Day but I find people only remember D-Day and think it's all easy street on June 7th and after.

Um....huh?

Projection? Because people that already know this history do not think this.

Next up, all the stuff that happened on June 7th, 1944......

my car windscreen has a sticker on it that says "every day is Remembrance Day"

Nous n'oublierons pas.

We shall forever be in their debt.

Never forget.

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched “The Longest Day”. I’ll need to revisit soon.

It's aired almost every, if not every year on june 6th here.

Must have seen it 20 times, so nowadays I pass, but I think it's the non french movie most aired ever on french TV.

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What is especially great about that film is that the authentic languages were used for the different sides/perspectives of the Normandy campaign.

Ici Londres, veuillez écouter, tout d’abord, quelques messages personnels :
les carottes sont cuites
Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone


Cheers,
Slug

People hear and see D-Day they think Allied troops landed successfully, mission accomplished.

The battle of D=Day continue for 2 months, 3 weeks and 3 days and didn't end until August 30th, 1944.

The allies lost over a quarter million troops, Nazi Germany as many as 530,000+

Loss in planes and tanks and guns and other military vehicles for both Allies and Nazi Germany are over 12,000.

Civilian losses as high as 50,000.

It's one of the most violent and brutal battle the Allies fought in the Europe Western front during the entire war, second only in brutality and violence and losses to the even more brutal and violent Italian campaign which began with the Allied landing in Sicily in 1943 and didn't end until May 8th, 1945.

There were so many battles during the battle of D-Day (or Battle of Normandy or Operation Overlord, whichever you prefer to call it) to name them all.

For example, after the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falaise_pocket#Aftermath

Who can't forget what General Eisenhower said:

WIKI The battlefield at Falaise was unquestionably one of the greatest "killing fields" of any of the war areas. Forty-eight hours after the closing of the gap I was conducted through it on foot, to encounter scenes that could be described only by Dante. It was literally possible to walk for hundreds of yards at a time, stepping on nothing but dead and decaying flesh.

Or the Battle for Hill 112 where the British losses suffered high losses. If one never heard of Hill 112, links:

https://www.battleofnormandytours.com/the-capture-of-caen-hill-112.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jupiter_(1944)

One of the many heroes of Hill 112, who joined and was told being part of the Artillery, he will be safe miles behind the front line.

https://www.legasee.org.uk/veteran/albert-figg/

https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/1940s-show-at-betteshanger-albert-figg-8214520

http://www.thehill112.com/services

https://menintheshed.com/tag/albert-figg/

So it's okay to remember D-Day but let's not forget all those who gave their lives for the 84 days after D-Day.

I've never met ANYONE who thinks that. People who bother to remember D-Day also know a good bit of the history and so they know that D-Day was indeed a successful foothold on the 5 beaches in Normandy but they also know that the Normandy campaign was not won on that single day.

Only the ignorant and uneducated.

I had my daughter watch this with me yesterday. Thanks.

On a related note, I just read a pretty sobering statistic.

According to the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, less than 1% of American WWII veterans are still alive as of June 2022.

I personally know one! He is 96 years-old and served on a minesweeper in the Pacific.

Also one of the nicest men you would ever meet. Quite a guy.

My Father was one. He was 19 in 1941, and served in Italy working on bombers, and passed away at 89 about 11 years ago. Looking at those numbers, with the average life expectancy that we have today, I guess it's not surprising there aren't many left, and we're losing major assets to society as they pass.

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

-- D. H. Lawrence