Nice article WW

It reminded me of when my old man posted a letter on another site after visiting Normandy last year .

Here is a part of that letter.




It will be 65 years since you set foot on this part of land that is called Europe and where you and your fellow soldiers were more victorious than anyone back then could have ever imagined

I can never imagine what was going through your mind when you first saw this part of the beach that you and your fellow soldiers around you would be setting foot on and how you were going to be able to get through the gauntlet set before you by a force that was so formidable , but yet those who followed you did emerge to win in the greatest miltary invasion the world was to witness .
Your sacrifice and the sacrifice of so many others who followed you made it possible for my grandfather to walk out of this and to have a good life and teach me what was honorable and good in life and for that I am greatful to those of you that fell in defense of what was right and just .
I remember hearing these word&裟s many years ago and it was along these lines .
"Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for another" , you and so many others did this over and over again .
Your loss and the loss of those who fell in combat then as in now was not in vain and it has given freedom to those who might otherwise have never had the chance to experience freedom the way it was meant to be and that is to be free from the chains of oppression and tyranny .
You and those who came before you and after you never failed us in our darkest times throughout all of history and that is something to behold till the end of time itself.




Ally