Remembering D-Day - June 6, 1944:

D-Day - June 6, 1944

All gave some, some gave all.

**

In honor of all who served.

We will never forget.

and when he gets to Heaven,

to Saint Peter he will tell:

"Just another soldier reporting, Sir.

I've served my time in Hell."

Recommended reading - D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (1994)

 

D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

by Stephen E. Ambrose.

Originally published in 1994.
 
ISBN-10: 1471158268
ISBN-13: 978-1471158261
 
Description from back cover:
 

D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination — what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy” — that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.

 

Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.

 

The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.

 

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On this day in television history - Justified (2010)

Justified
Season 1. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Veterans.

Released May 25, 2010.

Directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Wendy Calhoun, Chris Provenzano and 

Benjamin Daniel Lobato.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Raymond J. Barry, M.C. Gainey, Linda Gehringer, Jim Haynie, Damon Herriman, Brent Sexton, Kevin E. West, Brad Carter, David Meunier, Ray Porter, Walton Goggins, John Lee Ames, Emerson Brooks, Mark Elias, David Haley, Darin Heames, Travis Johns, Josh Wingate, David Hill, Jeffrey Jones.