D-Day has everyone forgotten this anniversary?

[underpants]

http://www.dday.org/
Bedford Va. Lost 19 of it’s 3,200 residents on D-Day.

I understand that the passing of a former President (no matter what you think of him) is a significant event but as I flip around the channels I see almost no mention of THE defining moment in world history as the beginning of the freeing of Europe and stopping the spread of evil began.

WWII was the embodiment of what this nation is all about and probably did more to change this nation and its attitudes about its real self than any other event. White, black, Asian, Native American, those at home (including B-actors staying in Hollywood to make "Health and Hygiene" films) all contributed to the effort. Horrible civil rights abuses were unfortunately a part of this but those may have served as an example of what needed to be changed. Aside from the great sacrifices made by those on the battlefield sacrifices were also made here at home and the realization of what everyone of every description had to offer became clear. A Democratic nation emerging from a flood of peoples and influences banded together with people from every country from which they came to stop tyranny and an attempt at world domination.

We always need to remember this day but TODAY everyone seems to be forgetting it.

[Braden]

1. most everyone

ever been to Vierville?

that cemetery is the saddest place I have ever been in my life. I woke up this morning hoping to see endless D-Day tributes and almost nothing. The occasional snippet of the chimp at the ceremony nothing else.

About to miles from the American Cemetery is the much quieter German Cemetery where another 20,000 kids are buried.

[fedsron2us]

2. Here in the UK it is wall to wall D-Day coverage all day

on BBC, ITV and Sky. It is the same on the Europe wide Euronews channel. I am afraid that poor old Reagan's demise is very much the second item. Shame that you in the USA can not join in. After all you played a rather important role in the original invasion. Still, I suppose the death of a B movie actor who was lucky enough to become President is more important than the sacrifice of thousands of Americans in freeing the world from the Nazis.

[kalian]

3. Why is it just D-Day....?

:shrug:
Seriously, people forget the battles of Stalingrad and Leningrad,
which were also MAJOR turning points of WWII and permitted (and gave)
time to the allies to prepare for their own offensive on the western
front.
Oh well... :eyes: Back to Reagan and then D-Day if we remember what
today's date is...

[underpants]

5. You are right we tend to forget that

"Enemy at the Gates" was a great reminder of how nasty those sieges were. That opening scene sends chills up my spine just like "Private Ryan" does.

Go that way!
But I don't have a rifle
You'll get one GO THAT WAY OR I WILL SHOOT YOU MYSELF.

paraphrased but that was frightening.

[KDLarsen]

7. The difference, I think, is that D-Day was one particular day

.. whereas the Leningrad siege & battle of Stalingrad took place over a period of time, where you couldn't really point at one particular day, time or event that changed all of it decisively. The only event I could think of was Operation Uranus, that aimed (and succeeded in) to surround the German forces at Stalingrad.

I personally think that the sacrifice of the Red Army, and Soviet Union as a whole, in WW2 has been overshadowed by the brutality of Stalin's regime.

[kalian]

9. But the point is....

that even if D-Day was a single day, the Russian army managed to tie
up a substantial number of elite German troops that would have
otherwise been facing (or storming onto the British beaches)...

MANY nations made extreme sacrifices.

[acmavm]

4. The D-Day landing was the pivotal event that led to final Nazi defeat in

WWII. I don't think that Americans fully understand what this landing meant to the history of the world. The media is responisble for all the Ronald Reagan crap, and they are ignoring their duty as responisble journalists to remember this day in history and chose rather to spend the entire day eulogizing someone who probably had no more role in running his country than the current nutball inhabiting our White House.

[underpants]

6. "The Role of a Lifetime"

Very aptly titled Regan biography.

[Servo300]

8. I hope not.