D-Day Lest We Forget

When I was just 20 years of age, I took a semester off from college to visit Europe. One late Sunday night, north of Paris, I found myself nearing the Normandy Coast. I spotted a small cement building. I did not comprehend initially what the building was but later it occurred to me it was a “pill box”, a building built by German soldiers to protect them from the Allied Invasion. I had an eerie feeling about the place. That was 64 years ago.

Today, on this anniversary, there is nothing in the press about D-Day, one of the most important events in this country in over 100 years. It is shameful.

The invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France during Operation Overload in World War II. It covers the initial landings on June 6, 1944 until the Allied breakout in mid-July.

It was the largest seaborne invasion at the time, involving over 850,000 troops crossing the English Channel from the United Kingdom to Normandy by the end of June 1944.

Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on June 6 came from Canada, Free French Forces, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. In the weeks following the invasion, Polish forces also participated and there were also contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece and the Netherlands. Most of the above

Countries also provided air and naval support, as did the Royal Austrian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal Norwegian Navy.

The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks, naval bombardmends, an early morning amphibious landing and during the evening the remaining elements of the parachute divisions landed. The "D-Day" forces deployed from bases along the south coast of England, the most important of these being Portsmouth. (Source: Wykopeadia)

A few days ago, I received an e-mail from Newt Gingrich with a link to a video of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prayer the day of the D Day invasion. It is a moving moment in time. We should not let the sacrifices that the American and Allied Soldiers made that day.

Click on the link below to view this video. Share it with you friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUy1ejRq9RE

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