78 years ago today

[uncle_rico]

Unimaginable what those many thousands of men storming the Normandy beaches went through. RIP to those that are still over there.

Stanley Hollis: The only D-Day soldier awarded a Victoria Cross

Wherever the fighting was heaviest, CSM Hollis appeared.' His bravery saved many lives on D-Day

www.history.co.uk

 

[chickenrunner]

'Twas on a summer's day--the sixth of June:--
I like to be particular in dates,
Not only of the age, and year, but moon;
They are a sort of post-house, where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o'er empires and o'er states

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Unimaginable what those many thousands of men storming the Normandy beaches went through. RIP to those that are still over there.

Stanley Hollis: The only D-Day soldier awarded a Victoria Cross

Wherever the fighting was heaviest, CSM Hollis appeared.' His bravery saved many lives on D-Day

www.history.co.uk

When you stand on the beaches and look at what they had to breach, you just wonder in amazement at what they achieved.

 

[tripleheader]

Without their sacrifices and of those before, what sort of a world would there be now.R.I.P and thank you.
Some of our current crop of leaders really want to take a long hard look at themselves.

 

[Ebor]

This has been missed this **** holiday weekend. As much as important as the Jubilee. Anywho, here's me, and my sadly departed Dad, on a last trip to Normandy. Proper hero

 

[Ebor]

Proper, earned medals BTW, not ***** ones