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I believe June 6, 1944 to be the most significant day of the 20th Century. Sadly the champions that freed the continent and heroes that ended the war are nearly all gone. We must all shoulder the burden to pass on to the next generation the significance of the sacrifices on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword and Juno Beaches that day and ensure no American or Allied loss that day was in vain.
Some of my favorite excerpts:
"All of these men were part of a rollcall of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland's 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England's armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard's ``Matchbox Fleet'' and you, the American Rangers."
"...It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
"The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought -- or felt in their hearts, though they couldn't know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell."
I believe June 6, 1944 to be the most significant day of the 20th Century. Sadly the champions that freed the continent and heroes that ended the war are nearly all gone. We must all shoulder the burden to pass on to the next generation the significance of the sacrifices on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword and Juno Beaches that day and ensure no American or Allied loss that day was in vain.
Some of my favorite excerpts:
"All of these men were part of a rollcall of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland's 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England's armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard's ``Matchbox Fleet'' and you, the American Rangers."
"...It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
"The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought -- or felt in their hearts, though they couldn't know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell."