I can never forget those very brave young men who saved us and our
future
generations from the jackboot of Hitler.
On 6th June every year I re-run my favourite DVD "Patton". What a
swashbuckling general he was with his pearl handled revolvers!
I was a child at the time living in the country on the South coast of
England and thousands of Canadian troops were bivouacked in the
fields
around our cottage. One night there was a lot of revving of engines
and in
the morning, they had all gone.
That day the sky was black with thousands of aircraft - bombers,
fighters
and hundreds of hundreds of C-47's with their gliders in tow. Sights
and
sounds that are indelibly embedded in my mind until the day I die.

Indeed, as dxAce exhorts us, let us not forget those brave men and the
hard
won freedoms they fought for and brought us.

--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
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On Jun 3, 1:10 am, dxAce wrote:
Just a reminder that the 63'rd Anniversary of Operation Overlord (D-Day) is this
coming Wednesday, 6 June.

Pause and remember.

dxAce
Michigan
USA