D-Day Anniversary
Today is the 63rd anniversary of D-Day. In just the battle to establish a beachhead on mainland Europe, the Allied forces suffered almost 50,000 deaths plus over 160,000 injuries and missing. (Imagine how the Democrats nowadays would react to such numbers.)
The photo above is of General Eisenhower speaking the the paratroopers who were to land behind enemy lines to disrupt the German ability to move reinforcements to the beaches of Normandy, Casualties among these units were expected to be as high as 75%, but their mission was essential if the beachhead established on D-day was to hold and even more casualties were to be prevented.
I've seen it written that D-Day was the fulcrum of the 20th Century. All events in the century prior to June 6, 1944 led to D-Day, and all events after that were based on the results of D-Day. We'd live in a very different world today had those men not fought so bravely or so well. take some time today to say a prayer of thanks to God for providing us such fine men and ask that he send us even more men like them and that we may be more like them.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.