We are now up to 70 years past and the number of veterans grows fewer with each passing year... the rest of this post goes back to posts I wrote back a few years ago...
Here is a thread I put up one year ago today which includes fotos from the 63rd anniversary in 2007. These types of scenes will be going on today but on a larger scale. I just missed going this year and I am just sick about it. But, salute to these veterans.
A British D Day veteran friend of mine two weeks ago told me that so long as there is one D Day veteran left, that France 'will always be ours.'
My post from June 6 2008 follows:
A year ago, I had driven all night from Werchter, tried to avoid but somehow ended up in Paris anyway and got lost for a while, finally made it out and down to the invasion beaches de la liberacion de 6 Juin 1944.
Made it in time to see a French military ceremony at Omaha Beach. Laying of wreaths at the monument to the American boys of the 29th Division who died there, speeches, re-enactors from different nations, veterans, a very special day in my life.
Extremely blustery, gray day, very much like the 6th of June 1944 I was told that evening by an American veteran who had landed on Omaha that day.
To be on that sacred soil on that day is something I will never forget.
irony - my rental car looking down the draw to Omaha Beach
A house in Port en Bessin commemorating the day
and the proud owner of the house, now 86, who was in it on the day of the Liberacion -- the roof of the house was blown off by naval shelling and the family got out and went to a nearby town for a while, then returned, but the house was not entirely rebuilt until 1947
British veterans, 2 of the 3 from D-Day
American paratrooper re-enactors from The Netherlands (or Sweden, trying to recall)
Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 2014-06-09 08:58 by timbernardis.