That's how long it's been since thousands of brave souls started the campaign to liberate a continent from the tyranny of a cruel government with only conquest and subjugation as its goal. Many were U.S. soldiers that spent their last moments in a strange land, on a strange beach surrounded by what can only be described as horrific.
Nothing I write will change this day, or honor them for what they accomplished. May this nation never forget their sacrifice or the reason for D-Day.
And I had just blogged about the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Midway a few days ago, only to neglect this arguably even more well-known milestone of WWII. Shame on me.
ReplyDeleteAnd God bless our armed forces, which have kept this country free for so many years.