Today is the 64th anniversary of D-Day.  June 6, 1944, when more than 160,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy to liberate France from Nazi occupation.  They jumped from planes and floated in on landing craft.  They touched the French soil and were slaughtered wholesale.

 

PBS aired a one hour documentary titled "D-Day: The Price of Freedom" that focused on 5 men who survived D-Day to tell their stories and retrun to France, to the beaches, where their buddies died.  While in France the locals come out in droves to greet them and thank them.  Apparently the French people haven't forgotten the solders from the US and Britain who fought and died to free them.  The French remember, maybe better than Americans do.  It's moving, touching.  I want to hug them, grasp their hands and stare into their eyes and say, wholeheartedly, thank you!

 

[see also American Experience D-Day]