June 6, 2021
On D-Day, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches code-named
Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword and Gold, carried by 7,000 boats. This year on June 6,
the beaches stood vast and nearly empty as the sun emerged, exactly 77 years
since the dawn invasion.
For the second year in a row, anniversary commemorations are marked by
virus travel restrictions that prevented veterans or families of fallen soldiers
from the U.S., Britain, Canada and other Allied countries from making the
trip to France. Only a few officials were allowed exceptions.
Charles Shay, a Penobscot Native American, was America's representative,
at the Ver-sur-Mer ceremony.
Shay took part in a commemoration at the American Cemetery later in the day
in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overseeing Omaha Beach, in the presence of
officials from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany and other allied
countries.
https://www.stripes.com/Theaters/Eu...-with-small-crowds-but-big-heart-1644999.html
A memorial honouring soldiers who died under British command on D-Day -
and in the fighting that followed - has been unveiled in France on the 77th
anniversary of the Normandy landings.
The British Normandy Memorial records the names of the 22,442 people
who were killed on D-Day and at the Battle of Normandy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-57374689
"France does not forget. France is forever grateful."
(and America is thankful to France, for helping America to be able to make its own
decisions. Better to have pressure from peers, than to have orders from a tyrant.)
On D-Day, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches code-named
Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword and Gold, carried by 7,000 boats. This year on June 6,
the beaches stood vast and nearly empty as the sun emerged, exactly 77 years
since the dawn invasion.
For the second year in a row, anniversary commemorations are marked by
virus travel restrictions that prevented veterans or families of fallen soldiers
from the U.S., Britain, Canada and other Allied countries from making the
trip to France. Only a few officials were allowed exceptions.
Charles Shay, a Penobscot Native American, was America's representative,
at the Ver-sur-Mer ceremony.
Shay took part in a commemoration at the American Cemetery later in the day
in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overseeing Omaha Beach, in the presence of
officials from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany and other allied
countries.
https://www.stripes.com/Theaters/Eu...-with-small-crowds-but-big-heart-1644999.html
A memorial honouring soldiers who died under British command on D-Day -
and in the fighting that followed - has been unveiled in France on the 77th
anniversary of the Normandy landings.
The British Normandy Memorial records the names of the 22,442 people
who were killed on D-Day and at the Battle of Normandy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-57374689
"France does not forget. France is forever grateful."
(and America is thankful to France, for helping America to be able to make its own
decisions. Better to have pressure from peers, than to have orders from a tyrant.)
