CountryFrog
Active Member
No personal stories of D-Day but I hope that the sacrifices and lasting effects of that day and that war stay relevant for future generations all over the world and especially in this country. We obviously have problems here in America and its easy to get caught up in those political/social/racial issues but we have never had an actual tyrannical government murdering millions of people and invading every country it can the way Europe had during that time. It's hard to even imagine what the millions of people in those countries went through every day, and equally hard to imagine what the sacrifices of soldiers from a foreign country meant to them. There are generations of people from those countries who are alive today, in part, because of the bravery and sacrifice of young men from the United States. Those were the darkest of dark times for lots of people. The sacrifices and heroism of the boys on that beach and throughout the war should serve as a reminder of the great capacity of people to be and do GOOD for others.
Political debates will rage on for as long as there are governments. Social and racial unrest will never fully go away as long as there are human beings. But we still have it in us to come together in tragedies and sacrifice for each other. I'm incredibly proud to be an American on days like this, and anyone from any of the countries who lost fathers, sons, and brothers at Normandy in the name of freedom and liberation should be proud as well.
Political debates will rage on for as long as there are governments. Social and racial unrest will never fully go away as long as there are human beings. But we still have it in us to come together in tragedies and sacrifice for each other. I'm incredibly proud to be an American on days like this, and anyone from any of the countries who lost fathers, sons, and brothers at Normandy in the name of freedom and liberation should be proud as well.