D-Day
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 11:43 a.m.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
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1 Comments:
It occurred to me how appropriate another version of Lt. Col. McCrae's beautiful poem might be with "On Normandy's beaches" substituting for "In Flanders Fields..." I don't imagine that poppies grow on the Normandy beaches or in hedgerow country, but the Brave Fallen of WW1 and their sons, the Brave Fallen of WW2, would both be poetically honored.
I'm old enough to remember a beautiful 1964 20th Anniversary CBS program with Dwight Eisenhower in Normandy with newscaster Walter Cronkite. They ended the program with a deeply moved Eisenhower speaking to Cronkite in a large Allied cemetery in Normandy. A viewer could tell that it was as if it were yesterday for Eisenhower. He spoke with simple elegance and passion on the meaning of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign and of the "last, full measure of devotion" given by all the Allied Fallen in Normandy and what those sacrifices meant for peace and freedom.
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