Lot of young blood spilled on the French beaches 70 years ago today.
RIP.
Will be in my prayers today.
I am a veteran, but not have any wars.
I remember once when I watched " Saving Private Ryan ", for the very first time. I was home and rented the movie. Never saw it before and heard it was really a great movie. Well, the first few scenes of the landing brought out emotions I haven’t felt since JFK was assassinated. I was brought to tears as I realized this was based on real events and I could imagine so many horrible things. The death and destruction may have been acted out, but it was based on real world events.
It was hard not to cry!
I salute all Veterans of all wars past and present.
" only the dead shall know the end of war "
Plato.
The BBC and some Twitter posts kept me enthralled with the 70th anniversary.
There was US based reporting, but nowhere near the level of UK based reporting.
BBC Radio 2 had a 2 hour broadcast on D-Day itself.
A fun blog was a 20 year old journalism student and her Twitter posts
http://normandyddayblog.wordpress.com/
Twitter link for her account led to a HUGE number of other, related, posts.
She toured with Maggie McNulty @NormandyPRUK
More than I can follow: https://twitter.com/hashtag/DDay70?src=hash
For those that like photo interpretation and its dissection: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/70th-anniversary-dday-photos_n_5445367.html
And Then and Now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/d-day-photos_n_5458969.html
Vietnam vet 1964-66
Don Howard ETR2
My late father ( Seabees, Philippines) would rarely if ever talk about the war. My late neighbor was at D-Day, who since he spoke Italian, was then immediately sent to Italy for that invasion, told stories incessantly about his experiences there, almost all of them humorous. Here are (were) two guys, both with multiple Bronze Stars, who coped with their wartime experiences in opposite ways. I find this rather interesting.
Peace time Vet 1975-1981