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78 years ago, on June 6, 1944,
at 630am (GMT+2 hours) this morning, 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free French Forces landed on Juno, Sword, Gold, Utah and Omaha beaches on the Normandy coast of France.
This started the liberation of western Europe from the yoke of NAZI oppression.
Not many are left, but we must never forget this generation and their sacrifices.
The Dutch get it
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/netherlands-american-cemetery-adopt-graves/
This American soldier was killed a month before the war ended and lies in the Netherlands, his grave tended by three generations of the same family. And the little guy, probably the 4th generation, is not American.
