Merely typing a post in commemoration seems so easy as to not be worthy of the collective effort and sacrifice made.
On the 60th Anniversary, Blackfive linked to a compendium of articles by milbloggers. It's well worth perusing, if you didn't back then. A-C-E was pleased to contribute a lengthy post on the role of the Airborne Forces (paratroopers and gliders). A search for "Airborne D-Day" will find many of the on-line articles upon which it was based. It also drew heavily on books by Ambrose and others. (If you see anything in error, please comment. ACE's conception was still months away at the time, so the info is all second-hand.)
Blackfive's 06JUN2006 D-Day post is also loaded with links to many good posts.
Today, we can only wish the good people of the World would once again recognize an insidious global threat and join forces against the evil blight that is radical Islamism, and God willing, eliminate it. (A little more help from the mostly good, peaceful Muslims, in denouncing the terrorism, would certainly help.) God is great, and God is on our side, not the side of those who want to throttle freedoms and beat/torture/bomb/kill those who don't agree with them.
optional ACE comments (and LOTS more) in the continuation
Fox Green Beach was the easternmost sector at Omaha, where the bulk of Americans (about 2200) died on D-Day.
Bloodspite @ Techography posted about the battle (and more -- illustrated) this time last year. Check it out. UPDATE: He's now posted his 2007 D-Day commemoration post, with a number of good links (including back to here, and thanks for that, Sir).
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We could also use some help from the Surrendercrats, aka Defeatocrats, who are busy explaining away any votes they ever made in support of the GWOT, which Edwards called a bumber sticker slogan. Today, they ask why we're fighting in Iraq, when we were attacked by people from Afghanistan. In '44, they'd probably wonder why we were invading Germany (via France), when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
John @ Argghhh! provided a great illustrated post.
Murdoc Online shows what the "Krauts" (as we called them then) saw from their bunkers that fateful morning.
A YouTube video clip captures the landing scene from "Saving Private Ryan," which many consider some of the most realistic war movie footage ever. [If you're at work, mute or turn down the volume.]
There were some color images of D-Day and WWII. See them at WWII in Color.
Neel's Nuze has the words of the prayer FDR read on the radio after announcing the D-Day invasion was on, and Neel Boortz played an audio recording of it on his show Wed. AM. (You can listen to it at The History Place.) It concludes:
"With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen."
It was followed by the singing of "God Bless America."
Amen!!! Today, President Bush should pray the same prayer, as we have a new global threat, but prayer is not PC these days.
ACE has a steel-covered pocket New Testament (like this one) which was given to Arbie Elroy Hufford in 1943. Inside the cover is a brief letter from FDR, recommending the reading of it "as a foundation of strength and now, as always, an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul." If anyone can prove a relation to Arbie, and answer some questions based on info I have, I'll sent it to them.
UPDATE: John @ Argghhh! has one also.
Neel (or one of his listeners) did speak from old info in saying there is no monument to the Allied Navies who participated in Operation Neptune, the naval portion of Operation Overlord. One was christened in 2001, as noted HERE.
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