51 years ago today, combined forces from America, Britain, France, and Canada made the largest amphibious landing in human history, braving machine gun fire and harsh weather on the beaches of Normandy, France. Through their brave sacrifices and herioc efforts, the face of freedom was eventually preserved throughout the world as the -blam!-s were slowly driven back into Germany and defeated.
I'm very greateful to those brave men, not much older than I am, who were on the beach that day, taking place in what I consider to be one of the most important events in modern history.
I dunno, I just felt like pointing it out.
*note: this isn't meant to be a political thread in any way*
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I thought it was June 4th... Oh well. It frustrates me how people speak out against war and don't appreciate the sacrifices our armed forces make to ensure our freedom and saftey. I've been playing Call of Duty today and there are some deep quotes in there. "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - General Douglas MacArthur "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher "You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war." - Kosovar "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt