D Day Remembered.
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields
"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
Re: D Day Remembered.
Yep. It gets noticed most years with some tv time, ceremony, etc., depending on how long it has been as each year rolls in. D day was the third front and not the first, though. The first European offensive front, other than the Russian front, is often forgotten. Nobody celebrates the quick Sicily conquest and the subsequent taking of the lower half of the boot of Italy and the collapse of the Italian government in less than two months. This time though, June 6, 1944, the invasion was taking back an allied country and the beginning of the turning point to victory. Although it wasn't until April of 1945 that Italy was completely taken back from a determined defensive response from the Germans, the Italian campaign was still the important first offensive thrust in the battle to take back Europe and defeat Hitler's Germany.