UPDATE:
Some British actors are rereading BBC news announcements from D-Day itself, at the same time of the day as they were originally broadcast. HERE Patrick Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones. The original “D-Day has come” HERE.
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D-Day
24000 men from these USA, Britain and Canada landed in France in Operation Neptune and the began the beginning of the end, Operation Overlord.
How I honor them.
I recently watched again the series Band of Brothers, which can only in a pale way bring some of the events to the minds eye of one who was not there. It is based on Stephen Ambrose’s book.
UPDATE:
The Great Roman Fabrizio sent along this photo of Mass being celebrated on the beach after D-Day. I think the organ is a nice touch:
