Sixty-four years....
Jun. 6th, 2008 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramblin_rosieYour Majesties, Mr. Prime Minister, honored guests and dignitaries, I’m Dwight Eisenhower, Commander in Chief, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, European Theater of Operation. Just getting the title straight is tiring enough. So I will leave much of today’s business to my trusted and gifted colleagues, brothers in arms. We are from different traditions, different services, but we are united in this crusade. We shall liberate Europe. We shall restore freedom. We shall make the world safe for democracy. There is no other cause so urgent as to bring us so far from our homes. This is our purpose. This is Operation Overlord.
--Ike's briefing for King George, Ike: Countdown to D-Day
There were miracles and massacres, heartaches and victories. Lots of things went wrong. Lots of things went right. Like one of Hannibal Smith's plans, Overlord didn't work right; it just worked. And when the sun went down on "the longest day," the tide of the war had changed for good.
Remember. And if you know someone who was there that day, give him a hug and thank him.
P.S. WHY does Google have a logo honoring Diego Velasquez? Haven't they gotten enough heat for ignoring Memorial Day?
--Ike's briefing for King George, Ike: Countdown to D-Day
There were miracles and massacres, heartaches and victories. Lots of things went wrong. Lots of things went right. Like one of Hannibal Smith's plans, Overlord didn't work right; it just worked. And when the sun went down on "the longest day," the tide of the war had changed for good.
Remember. And if you know someone who was there that day, give him a hug and thank him.
P.S. WHY does Google have a logo honoring Diego Velasquez? Haven't they gotten enough heat for ignoring Memorial Day?
