79 years ago this morning

Moving interview with one of the last survivors on the BBC

I thought the point about having too little life experience to appreciate the enormity of the situation was particularly insightful.

The greatest tribute we can pay that generation is to ensure their sacrifice is never needed again.

 
Arm in arm, hand in hand
towards the land we go,
the four thousand, four hundred
who never made it home.

Gave our blood to warm the sea,
smiles for mothers’ picture frames,
our bones to stiffen sand
as inch by inch we take the land.

Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold, Sword,
this is Neptune’s lost boys calling,
laying tracks for Overlord,
faint shapes in the mist, forever falling.
 
Enjoyed the programme last night with Vicky Mclure and her Granddad. He was a signaller in the Navy and was on a tank landing craft. He hadn't talked about the war until recently and was only 18 years old on D day.
 
I’ve visited plenty of WW1 sites in France and Belgium in the past, will be paying a visit to Utah beach next month.
Lest we forget.
 
It is horrific walking round the cemetery at Bayeux and just seeing row upon row of gravestones with age 18, age 21 etc on them.

To walk off those landing craft onto those beaches is just unimaginable to me.
 
I've stood on Omaha beach and looked up at where the German guns were positioned and just thought how did they manage to get off this beach?

The war graves are enough to put anyone off starting another war yet the main headline is still about dictators throwing their weight about in Europe.
 
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