D Day the 6th of June

[jerryfmcompushaft]

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France – Commemorations of the 69th annniversary of D-Day have begun with the stars-and-stripes being raised in a quiet ceremony at the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach.

Tourists, many from the U.S. and Britain, gathered in the still morning under a brilliant spring sky to witness the flag-raising amid the neat rows of thousands of white marble crosses and stars of David marking the graves of U.S. servicemen and women fallen in the Allied invasion of Normandy that began June 6, 1944.


Read more: www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/06/commemorations-marking-6th-anniversary-allied-invasion-france-begin-with-flag/#ixzz2VRhf6d6T

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God bless the men and women of our greatest generation!

[Swampy]

Jun 6, 2013 15:23:27 GMT -5 @kylenedenny said:

God bless the men and women of our greatest generation!

True enough.

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God bless all of them

[Swampy]

From our FB group, a Youtube video on Ike's D-Day speech.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

Anyone aware of any US Governmental recognition of the day?

[Sir John]

It is a pity that so much movie footage was lost over the side of a transport after D-Day.


..and I read a moving piece on the story of (I think) about 4 sets of father/sons are buried at the cemetery, along with about 6 sets of brothers, including 2 sets of twins.

LEST WE FORGET.



SJ

[boxcar]

Obama could not be bothered. He went on a fund raising mission.