64 Years Ago the beginning Of the end !

[Walt]

DDay was 64 years ago today.. That makes an 18 year old veteran of that day at least 82 now.. They are fewer every day and I have been very fortunite and honored to have known a few.
Tonight with friends I will drink a toast of my favorite single malt to that truely Greatest Generation..as long as we remember, they and their feats will continue to live.

Cheers.

[MichelB]

The enormity of that day still hits me like a sledgehammer.

[Filipe Ramires]

I have yet to go there one day and take a walk on those beaches. It's been a dream of my own for several years. It's the least one can do to pay tribute for those that fought and died for the beginning of the freedom of Europe.

[Gone Asiatic]

DDay was 64 years ago today.. That makes an 18 year old veteran of that day at least 82 now.. They are fewer every day and I have been very fortunite and honored to have known a few.
Tonight with friends I will drink a toast of my favorite single malt to that truely Greatest Generation..as long as we remember, they and their feats will continue to live.

Cheers.

Well spoken....or posted!

[Werner]

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember�d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. (4.3.43)

[kennylibben]

My 86 year old neighbor, who jumped behind enemy lines on D-Day (or the night before I'm assuming) - as well as multiple cancer survivor - just jumped again yesterday, his second jump at Normandy since D-Day. He was the oldest one to jump (yesterday that is).