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What day?
Just a reminder to everyone
Tomorrow is a special day
Why?
It's just an ordinary day, right?
What makes it special?
Because it's a day that should be remembered
Check that. It's not..
A day that should be remembered
Check that. It shouldn't be..
B day that should be remembered
We should remember it, see?
Check that. It's not..
C day that should be remembered
No. Tomorrow is the day
The anniversary of the operation which brought together
The land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies
In what became known as
The largest amphibious invasion in military history
It marked the start of a long and costly campaign
To liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation
Over 10,000 documented Allied casualties
Including 4,414 confirmed dead
It happened at Normandy Beach
June 6, 1944
D Day
Remember
My mother's three brothers
My mother's three brothers were in the European theater---two participated in D Day and the Battle of the Bulge; one was a pilot of a bomber. All three survived, although the pilot passed away, several years afterward, from complications that could be traced back to wounds received. My father enlisted in the Marines, was sent to the Pacific Theater, and served aboard the Nevada as a gunner's mate. He helped operate the guns that shot down the Japanese suicide planes. Ironically, my mother and her brothers were the children of two immigrants, one of whom was from Germany; but, to hear them talk, their German ancestry in no way ameliorated their fierce desire to combat, and ultimately defeat and destroy, the Third Reich and the Nazi Party.
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