Update: I very much like Wintery Kinght's
post featuring Ronald Reagan's Normandy speech and WK's reflections on what D-Day means to Christians
** Following is a link to a special series of interactive photographs taken before, during and after D-Day. Click on each of the pictures and find that same scene today. You won't be sorry!
** Also, here is the story of one of the veterans who stormed the participated in D-Day - Andy Andrews.
From an
interview: . . . Andy Andrews, 90 , in his own words/As told to staff writer David Perlmutt
. . . I was drafted with 250 boys out of my class at Central High in Chattanooga, Tenn. That was in June, 1943. We used to joke that we went through the graduation ceremony and out the back right into a GI truck.
I had four brothers. All of us were drafted. All of us went to war and thankfully all of us came home. God was good to us.
I was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, 16th Regiment, H Company. We were sworn in at Fort Oglethorpe (near Chattanooga) and sent to Fort McClellan in Alabama. They told us, ‘You guys are going to be machine-gunners. You understand that?’ None of us had a clue about what we were doing.