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D-Day, Plus 75 Years (75th Anniversary)
Well Patriots, haven’t wrote an article in a while but I couldn’t resist writing about D-Day’s 75th Anniversary. I have been extremely busy with other projects, of which I may announce once I have completed them. I am still working on other shirt designs, however they may come out in another venue, possibly Nine-Line or Grunt Style, don’t know at this point, but watch for the Minuteman in the future!
Back to paying homage to our brave predecessors, Veterans both alive. deceased and certainly those heroes that never made it back home in defense of the World’s greatest country as well as our Allies against the forces of Nationalistic Socialism (AKA NAZIS), left wing Fascism and Japanese Imperialism. Also known as forces of Evil trying to dominate the world. Think about it for a minute if the United States wouldn’t have joined the War at the time it did we all would probably be speaking German!
A little history about the D-Day invasion (code name Operation Overlord), most of this history is off the cuff, so I hope I don’t mess up the sequence of events too much. My main reason for writing this blog is not for historical reference but to pay my intense respect for our fallen Heroes both American and our Allies. This momentous battle happened 75 years ago on June 6th, 1944. General Eisenhower was told to expect a 75% casualty rate and he sent our soldiers anyway. Can you imagine being an American soldier and getting on a ship to cross the English Channel in rough seas to make a beach landing on the five beachheads: Omaha, Juno, Diamond, Gold and Sword. All the while knowing 3 out of 4 of you and your brothers in arms would be killed just getting on the beach. Talk about courage to face such odds and take that gamble out of a sense of duty and honor! I am also writing this article because I have a familial history in which I have a relative that was involved in D-Day that had even greater odds to overcome than the beach landing. That relative had just turned 18 and was in the 82nd Airborne Division and the 325th Airborne Regiment. As far as I know the only time gliders were used to deliver Airborne troops into battle. Most of the airborne troops were delivered by conventional parachutes. This was an experimental delivery process, thinking they could place these troops with possible lower mortality rates. Unfortunately, this was not the case, and some of these units including the 325th suffered greater than 80% casualty rates. The Germans were ready for the Airborne troops and the Airborne were deep behind enemy lines surrounded by elite German soldiers. The intense bravery and fighting capabilities of our Airborne troops is what sustained them through the first few days of the D-Day offensive!
As for the 325th Airborne Regiment they suffered such heavy losses, the crest of that Regiment is represented by double crosses, signifying their intense sacrifice in this conflict!
An excerpt from Fox News goes as follows: Seventy five years ago this June 6th, over 150,000 men (73,000 Americans and 83,000 British and Canadians) ran through the waves at Normandy France, and braving mortar shells, mines and the dreaded mg42 German machine guns (deamed the German Buzz saw ) in the biggest seaborne invasion of all time. D-Day has come to be remembered as the 20th century’s iconic battle and with good reason. The operation was the largest if not the bloodiest of WW2 (Fox News).
So D-Day was 75 years ago, certainly ancient history to the younger generations in our country. Most of which, certainly due to inadequate public school education and revisionist history classes. It is truly a travesty these younger generations don’t pay respect to our country’s Heroes! We definitely, as Patriotic Americans need to show our respect to the sacrifice of our American Heroes that lay down their lives, for US to remain a Free NATION! Like the old adage “FREEDOM IS NOT FREE”! My coined saying is “AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE DESPITE THE LIBERALS”! HOOAH, BOOM SHOCKA-LOCKA!
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