The 75th D-Day Anniversary is a time to pause as we remember and honor the men and women of The Greatest Generation for all they sacrificed for us.
On this 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion may we recall the sacrifice of millions as they put themselves in harms way to preserve the freedom we enjoy today. We can honor them by remembering and by continuing to protect the freedom of every man, woman, and child. Here are some quotes that have inspired me. I hope they will move you too.
“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that ‘they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn’t come here to fear. They hadn’t come to die. They had come to win.’” – Stephen E. Ambrose, historian
“Everyone was violently busy on that crowded, dangerous shore. The pebbles were the size of apples and feet deep, and we stumbled up a road that a huge road shovel was scooping out. We walked with the utmost care between the narrowly placed white tape lines that marked he mine-cleared path, and headed for a tent marked with a red cross…Everyone agreed that the beach was a stinker, and that it would be a great pleasure to get the hell out of here sometimes.” – Martha Gellhorn, the first female journalist to report on D-Day
“I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good luck!” – Winston Churchill
“At this historic moment surely not one of us is too busy, too young or too old to play a part in a nation-wide, perchance a world-wide vigil of prayer as the great crusade sets forth-“ King George VI, speaking during a radio address on June 6, 1944.