Thursday, June 6, 2013
D Day, The 6th of June, 1944, A Huge Turning Point
"The world will little note nor long remember," Taking a line from the Gettysburg Address. D Day was a huge turning point in World War II. There were 10, 000 dead, wounded and missing in action that day. And here we are 69 years later; a few lines, in some papers, nothing mentioned in most. This was a cartoon by Rick Detorie, in the Denver Post.
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I'm at a loss for words. Thanks for posting the comic strip.
ReplyDeleteI'm at a loss too, Michael.
ReplyDeleteDon't quite know what to say, to be honest.
ReplyDeleteAustralians were our allies as well. The stories are on Google, many I had not heard of before.
DeleteHaving lived through it, although as a child, I certainly remember it, and I suspect you would find lots of Europeans do still. My husband being a few years older remembers it even better.
ReplyDeleteJO ON FOOD, MY TRAVELS AND A SCENT OF CHOCOLATE
I think that people of a certain age still do and those that have, shared their stories, if they could, with their children, their grandchildren and their great grandchildren. So many brave men.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Most who fought that day are gone now, so it's up to the rest of us to remember.
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan, I hope we do. The political climate here in the United States would rather that we would not remember.
DeleteHi Tasha .. there's been a lot going over here .. and in Europe .. the momentum is building for a 100 years from the start of World War 1 ...
ReplyDeleteIt is remembered here though I suspect many many more do not understand at all .. or think about it properly ..
The effects of those two wars were awful, just dreadful .. and as you rightly note we should be so grateful for all that was done for us to be able to be free today ..
With thoughts - Hilary
Hi Hilary: Thanks for your thoughts. Now I am watching "Foyles" war -- did you see the series set in Britain during the early years of WW2? The acting is superb, the stories based on true events, the attention to detail, perfect.
DeleteI"ve been in France on two D-Day anniversaries, in Brittany in 2001 and in LaRochelle (where there are vast fortifications from wars centuries-past) in 2013. Both times I have given myself some time to reflect on what it must have been like to have been there on June 6, 1944. What did people know? What were they thinking, hoping for? The Normandy beaches, which I visited a few weeks later in 2001, looked so normal---children playing, families picnicking, people strolling. I wonder how many generations it will take before their significance pales, like the LaRochelle and Ile de Re fortifications, historical relics.
DeleteIf you have the opportunity, visit all the D-Day beaches, the cemetery, and the monuments.