Today is the 66th anniversary of Operation Overlord, more commonly known as D-Day. Since then, an army or two of writers have tried to find the right combination of words that sum up our gratitude for the heroic men who assaulted those beaches to save the world from a great evil. We've striven to encapsulate the enormity of their task in mere words. We struggle to wrap our minds around the courage of those men who stepped off of those landing boats and waded straight into hell on earth. The National D-Day Foundation has confirmed 2499 American troops died that day. Thousands more were wounded. We are grateful to all of them.
My only purpose is to remind you of that day. Like all the rest, I do not have the words to properly put it into any kind of perspective.
God bless our Armed Forces and their families, and God bless America.
VW
God bless America, and God bless these valiant warriors who, literally, helped to save the planet.
BZ
Posted by: Bloviating Zeppelin | Monday, June 07, 2010 at 13:09