An interesting chart:
https://ibb.co/7RJwKC5
Before Saving Private Ryan...there was The Longest Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KdNUlLzTvA
Which was a favourite film of mine growing up.
shareMe too. That scene with Richard Burton talking about the German with the boots on the wrong feet always comes to mind.
shareThis is a great movie about an elaborate plot to extract the invasion plans from an American officer: https://moviechat.org/tt0057809/36-Hours
shareThe more time that has past the fewer the veterans that remain.
shareI had an uncle who died there. I also once had a neighbor who fought in The Battle of the Bulge. Great old guy! Used to love talking to him. He routinely gave me veggies from his garden. We both lived just two blocks from here: https://www.travelks.com/listing/eisenhower-presidential-library-museum-and-boyhood-home/207/
shareUnfortunately, there are fewer left every year.
shareWhen I think of how carefree my life was as a young man, I can't even imagine what these young men must have felt. Heroes all indeed.
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