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In reply to the discussion: 75 years ago my 20 year old dad was dropped in Normandy [View all]ZZenith
(4,122 posts)53. I really appreciate your post, MaryMagdaline.
We were in Normandy several years ago and it wasnt until I stood on Omaha Beach and La Pointe-Du-Hoc that I got a true sense of what they were up against. The Germans were so well dug in all along the coast and the Cotentin peninsula that had any part of the operation failed, the whole landing force would have been driven back into the sea. Humanity owes so much to those people who overcame their fear and did the necessary thing in 1944.
I am the son of a combat veteran of a later war, and I lament so much that my father can point to no noble reason for it.
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I am SO glad you corrected me. It would be so embarrassing to learn later that I posted
MaryMagdaline
Jun 2019
#17
I've never gone there. My best friend has a house in France, not terribly far from Normandy.
MaryMagdaline
Jun 2019
#15