6 June. 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 tweet

[irisblue]

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[handmade34]

1. "lest we forget"

[irisblue]

2. He was 18 when he landed on Sword Beach

Bert Barritt passed at age 94, in November 2019.

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[Auggie]

3. D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose, is an amazing account of this battle

[SLClarke]

4. I watched the build-up ..

I watched the tanks, troop carriers, jeeps and more go past the bottom of the driveway, it seemed for days. I clearly remember the tanks - they were large, smelly and made the most appalling, and distinctive, noise.
There was not much of the road left after those passed.
I was almost 4 years of age, and was living with my grandparents in a bungalow in Stubbington (a little village near Portsmouth).
Stubbington was bombed 3 weeks later, on the night on June 27th, which took out the center of the village (for those interested, there is a Edina TED talk about it - go to uTube and enter Susan Legender Clarke).

[irisblue]

5. Welcome to DU

[Duppers]

6. My dad was at Omaha

He was one of the lucky ones in the Second assault wave.




At the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA. If ever near there, it's well worth seeing.

[Codeine]

7. My stepdaughter thinks it's odd

that I remember her birthday by mentally labeling it D-Day+2, but what a pivotal day was June 6th.