Remember everyone

[Retired AF Dem]

61 years ago today. 6 June 44. I have been in some nasty situations in my military career, but I always wonder if I would have had the balls to land on the occupied beaches of France. We owe so much to so few.

[Serial Mom]

1. How right you are ... some great men

did what they had to.

My dad landed on one of the beaches I think it was 2-3 days later. He didn't talk much about the war until he was dying, then told me a few things. I was shocked and proud at the same time for what he endured.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Two of my uncles went ashore that day...

Uncle Paul at Utah beach, and Uncle Bill drove an LST onto Omaha beach (and was shot in the ass). I've been thinking of them all day today.:patriot:

[annabanana]

3. It was surely an awe inspiring undertaking..

How fortunate for us that it turned out like it did. We are deeply in debt. What is the best way to honor these brave men? Perhaps to see to it that the Democracy they fought for will survive enemies, domestic.

[Batgirl]

4. whereas, I don't have wonder

if I "would have had the balls" to do what they did, being fairly certain I would have collapsed like Don Knott's in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

Thanks for the reminder of their unbelievable sacrifices.