Weekly Editorial - June 5, 2008
Regarding D-Day Thomas Lifson at AmericanThinker.com said:
June 6 is a sacred anniversary, the commemoration of one of the greatest invasions in human history, D-Day at Normandy. Brave Allied troops waded ashore amidst withering machine gun fire and artillery, dying by the thousands in order to secure the beachhead and lay the basis for the western front and the drive into Germany. It was incomparably bloody beyond anything we have encountered in Iraq.
There is so much for us to remember about this act of mass heroism. Fortunately, there is a vast array of information available to those who wish to learn more.
Twelve Amy men earned the Medal of Honor on that day, 8 of them posthumously (see this link). To honor them all, we should read and learn more about their valor and sacrifice, even as WW2 veterans are dying in great numbers - and to never forget them.
Read a brief history of D-Day at nationalww2museum.org/education/briefddayhistory.pdf. [NOTE: Document is in PDF format]
Watch a video clip of Normandy invasion on D-Day at youtube.com/watch?v=uPU4p7UQOtU&feature=related.
Read the prayer President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave on the evening of June 5, 1944 while addressing the nation by radio sal459.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/d-day-prayer.
Listen to FDR's radio address at youtube.com/watch?v=IUy1ejRq9RE.
Listen to audio of Eisenhower’s Order of the Day for June 6, 1944 http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/dday/orderofthedayaudio.html.
Visit the blog BlackFive.net for many D-Day links at blackfive.net/main/2006/06/dday_remembered.html.