Photo credit: Real Clear Defense
Lots of reports on commemorations of D Day this week. Here's a succinct report by Emma Watkins and Alexandra Marotta in a column for The Daily Signal:
If the invasion of Normandy had
been unsuccessful that day, Europe might have remained under Nazi control, and
our world might look much different today. That battle was the tipping point
needed to liberate Europe.
The American troops who fought in
D-Day were not fighting to liberate their own land. They fought to preserve
the free
world.
Most of those troops probably
didn’t wake up that morning anticipating that their sacrifice would change the
world. They got up knowing only that they had work to do.
That’s a valuable lesson for a
generation that often sees going to work as an obligation, rather than an
opportunity to effect change.
Some 6,603
American troops were killed, wounded, or missing in action in the
Normandy invasion. They fought for a cause that was larger than simply securing
the beaches. That sacrifice is often taken for granted today. It is essential
that we do not let the significance of what was achieved on D-Day be forgotten.
Read the rest here. Recently discovered color photographs of D-Day (see above photograph) and the Liberation of Paris are here.
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