My thoughts are scrolling backwards in time, seventy years to the day.
Through the fog of the early Normandy dawn…
…our Allied soldiers waited on rolling seas, ill and cramped…
…yet solid and ready.
As the light broke, they stormed…
…through the water that pulled at their boots…
…only to hit terra firma as bullets rained from above.
On they charged to part the mist of history that Hitler had draped over Europe, over the world…
…that darkness, seemingly irrefutable, was seared by their bright light of hope and strength.
Here are to those that fought that day and to those that were left behind. You created a new path.
Long may we remember, long may we follow.
I am glad you enjoyed it G, especially as you have moved me with so many tributes yourself.
Merci beaucoup, Natalie. That is such a fine compliment. And thank you as well for mentioning the Russian soldiers as well. As I grew up during the Cold War, I learned so little of their sacrifice until I visited Russia myself…
What an incredibly inspiring story, Jackie! So much more is possible than we think…
Thank you so much for your comment, Bruce. I feel the same.
Remi said that the memorial coverage in France was very moving. I saw so little of it here.
You are welcome Edgar, I know that you were thinking about the anniversary too.
Elizabeth, I always appreciate hearing your very pin-point specific perspective. I don't think I thought much about what it must have been like for those soldiers until having seen some of the film footage that was taken during it – that I won't forget. Nor having visited the cemetaries in Normandy…
Our world is such a mess in some ways, Judith. I think that we forget the context – I know that I do at times.
Beautiful stated.
Their souls are part of the landscape you took in those pictures…I could see them!
THANKS… we will NEVER forget…