69 years ago today

Let us also not forget the "D-Day Dodgers", who 69 years ago yesterday battled their way up the "Forgotten Front" and liberated Rome, the first European capital to be freed from Nazi control.

Thank-you
 
The shame is we see less and less about it every year in news coverage, this is a very important day and it should remain so, 1 in 16 chance of being killed or wounded for the Canadians that day are odds everyone should be reflecting on especially school kids.
 
Paid my respects in 2008! My wife and I went to France for our honeymoon and we decided to head to Normandy. Saw the Juno centre and the Omaha beach cemetery and museum. Amazing!!
 
Every day is thank a veteran day some days are just more important then others.

I volunteer at a military museum and with the recent death of the former curator who was a D-Day Veteran with the winnipeg rifles it is especially important to me that I do whatever I can to spread the message about not only D-Day but the voices of veterans from any conflict.
 
It's almost as it never happened. Around this day, up to last year, there was
quite a bit of "hoopla" made. TV was full of "WWII" movies and documentaries.
You couldn't ignore it as it was coming.
This year? I had to pinch myself figuratively to remember that 6/6 meant something
and should always be remembered as D-Day. I haven't seen a single channel program
showing "The Longest Day". It's almost as if our Governments and our MSM are too
embarrassed to admit that our boys died by the hundreds, if not thousands, on the
beaches and air-drop zones of Normandy so that you and I and he and she could be
free to speak (in English, s'il vous plait) nowadays.
 
I watched Ike the other day with Tom Selik, great movie about a great man and a great day for freedom.... I could watch that movie over and over.... we were lucky to have great men like Eisenhower, Churchill and others
 
dont get me wrong ever man and woman who fought for our freedom should be thanked, and for the most part i silently thank them everyday, important days like today 69 years ago mean alot to me, kids these days dont know how lucky they are today, to be playing on there iphone and i pads, and being spoiled brats, not knowing the fathers and brother and sons and everyone else who died for our freedom, and the worst part is no one really know the true hell they endured,

again freedom isnt free, and the veterans and active duty men should be thanked each and every day
 
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