In Remembrance

[STM]

72 years ago thousands of brave American Soldiers stormed Omaha and Utah beaches on the coast of Normandy. Many never left the beaches alive. I have two second cousins lying beneath crosses in the cemetery there. They were indeed our greatest generation. I spent 23 years of my life in the US Army Air Assault Infantry between active duty and reserves and 4 tours in Iraq beginning with Desert Storm and through all of it, I don't feel like I ever had to endure the unmitigated hell that they did, even though I was thrice wounded.

This generation has my greatest admiration and respect for paying a debt that none of use could ever repay.

May they all forever rest in God's peace.

 

[Whiskeyman]

Yep, D-Day + 72 years. My dad's cousin, who jumped on D-Day with the 101st Airborne Division, recently passed away. He was really a neat man, who rarely would discuss his experiences in Europe, as far as I knew. I recommend that if you know someone who was there, talk with them and record the conversation, if they are willing, for their history is slipping away, and when they are gone, there is no one left to share their story.

WM

 

[LouCioccio]

Here are a couple the wife and I took on the last day of May. A D500 with a Tamron 70-200/2.8 mounted on a tripod. This is at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Erie, PA.
Lou Cioccio

 

[Ta2Dave]

72 years ago thousands of brave American Soldiers stormed Omaha and Utah beaches on the coast of Normandy. Many never left the beaches alive. I have two second cousins lying beneath crosses in the cemetery there. They were indeed our greatest generation. I spent 23 years of my life in the US Army Air Assault Infantry between active duty and reserves and 4 tours in Iraq beginning with Desert Storm and through all of it, I don't feel like I ever had to endure the unmitigated hell that they did, even though I was thrice wounded.

This generation has my greatest admiration and respect for paying a debt that none of use could ever repay.

May they all forever rest in God's peace.

Thank you for your service, sir.

 

[Elliot87]

Let us remember them and also the many brave British, Canadian and other allied troops who also fought in the D Day landings. Many of whom paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.