Forty-five U.S. WWII veterans — most now in their late 90s — traveled to France to mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, the largest ever military amphibious operation and air assault in history.
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops set off from the south coast of England to Normandy, beginning the military operation that ultimately led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation.
At the Normandy American Cemetery perched above the sea at Colleville-sur-Mer, dotted with white cross headstones and U.S. flags, 9,386 soldiers are buried. U.S. officials including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attended the ceremony there on Tuesday along with the 45 veterans who were helped to travel by the Best Defense Foundation, founded by former American footballer Donnie Edwards.
If they new what they were fighting for they would have changed sides
The thing about war is that the people who often support war are the same people who have never experienced it themselves.
Wars are old men talking and young men dying.
Saving Private Ryan is the closet we get to the horrors those guys saw on D-Day (as shown by the fact that WW2 veterans couldn’t watch it due to it being too realistic).
A lot of the sissies who support Biden would be the subject of mockery and would be the laughing stock of the platoon (if they even make it past basic training)
My father served in WW2 as a plane mechanic in the ArmyAir Force. Dad never talked to us about the war. He was too busy providing us a home, working and taking us on vacations. And we as kids never thought about it growing up back in the fifties, sixties and seventies. We just took life for granted growing up.
Now, as I look back and think about the sacrifices, all those brave men and women made, I am ashamed at what has happened to America now. Ashamed and disgusted.
God bless all the brave men and women that served in WW2.
For the first 10 years we were married, Mr. BNI never talked about Vietnam either. Even after that, he didn’t say too much about it
except to curse HanoiJane Fonda whenever he saw her image.
The invasion certainly spearheaded the end of the war.
That said, I cry at the number of Americans sacrificed for the likes of the French Frogs, bowing to Islam and self-destructing and destroying everything we fought for.
A POX on those cowardly fools!
My dad was a part of D Day. With the 101st airborne they jumped in behind enemy lines the day before the invasion. He came home a paraplegic. He died from wound complications in the late 1950s when I was just 2 1/2 years old. I’m so proud of him. War sucks.
What a tragic story. You should be proud, your father was the kind of person who made America great.
Thank you❤️
Although I never served in the military. I like to think that he would be proud of me and my kids too. Us Maga Trumpers carry on with American patriotic fire in our bones.❤️
Absolutely!
The horror of D day was strong in my family. My parents couldn’t even talk about it. About all my mother could get out was, “the boys….” I tried to get them to face it & watch “Saving Private Ryan”. They couldn’t do it. My mother had PTSD from the war. But, the invasion, though horrific, certainly was a great thing & brought the war to an end.