D Day was one of those crucial minutes of battle that would
determine the course of history for millions of people. While we could bomb the German war industries
into dust, it required infantrymen to capture and hold the contested countries
of Europe. Strip away the technology of
modern warfare and what remains is what warfare has always been; men willing to
put their lives in jeopardy for a cause, an ideal, or for the men who fight
beside them. On such fragile weapons,
the world is changed.
The beaches
of Normandy were killing fields, designed to resist any and all attempts to
capture and hold a beachhead. Brave men
from Canada, from the UK, and from the U.S., took those beaches, scaled those
cliffs, and wrote their names in the history of warfare forever. I’ve been
privileged to know some of those heroes. Nearly all of them are gone now.
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