Now imagine the water the color of blood. The sea and beach covered with bodies and parts of bodies....I was up half the night of the 5th/6th and spent the better part of the 6th perusing history books trying to find the right words. I shed many tears.I watched countless videos on youtube...there are no words I can summon to recreate the horror, valor, & heroism of that day. I can tell you that FDR, Ike, Churchill and England's queen all offered public prayers invoking the name of the Almighty to be with our "boys"....
I suggest you follow this link to a 10 minute video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qeCNg8fO0&feature=related
With all due repect I offer you these images:
June 6, 1944 Remembered
The following are links from youtube:
FDR's speech to America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-weBUzQleo
Eisenhower's speech to the troops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyCjN9riiY&feature=related
Winston Churchill's speechto the Britain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0JsPXg-e1s&feature=related
Stephen Ambrose on Saving Prvate Ryan
http://www.historyinfilm.com/ryan/real.htm
Opening scene Sav Pr Ryan Pt 1 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmEpnHKr4M&feature=related
PT 2 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMq7iiIoiSw&feature=related
from {roivate ryan scene 3 of 4
Scene 3 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP1OyLojDl4
scene 4 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B02a7GhyAXA
*******closing scene of the movie (tear-jerker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0lc1IOHejs
We so often forget the airmen w/o which D-Day would not have succeeded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaEezr48xiQ&feature=related
Recommended reading
Stephen Ambrose
Pegasus Bridge: D-Day before Dawn
D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from Normandy Beaches to the Bulge
to the Surrender of Germany
Gerald Astor
June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day
(In the words of Ambrose, "No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor")
The National D-Day memorial in Bedford, Va is in dire financial trouble. Please check out their site...may we never forget.....
(D-day memorial in Bedford)
http://smokeys-trail.com/USA/bedford-2001.html
http://www.awon.org/memorials/bedford/
making a donation:
http://www.dday.org/index.php?page=giving
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