4,414

[Chainfire]

The estimated number of American servicemen who gave their lives on D-day, 76 years ago today. Thanks to them, and their generation, we can sit and safely complain about the horrible leadership we live under today.

Here we are, after 76 years, facing the rise of Fascism again, this time the enemy is not across the ocean but occupies the halls of our government. How will history remember our generation is up to us.

[lastlib]

1. We truly owe them everything. Above all,

we owe them a duty NEVER to allow abominations like Hitler and Mussolini (and he-who-shall-not-be-named) to come to power again--ESPECIALLY in the country for which they made their ultimate sacrifice.

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[Arkansas Granny]

2. I met two men who hit the beaches that day. They didn't speak of it much.

They were young men who had never left home before and were just trying to stay alive.

One of them, a friend of my employer, was persuaded by his daughter to give an interview to our PBS station a couple of years before he died and describe what is was like. I was able to get a DVD of that interview and give it to my boss.

[Chainfire]

3. I grew up surrounded by WWII veterans

I never knew any of them to speak of their experiences until very late in their lives. Combat vets wanted to forget, not remember.