Comment:  Lots of protests are planned today against proposed cuts to VA.  That attempted to steal my peace about what this day really commemorates.  My dad was a WWII Navy veteran.  My thoughts are about him today being in both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns...

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/d-day-and-normandy-campaign

D-Day and the Normandy Campaign

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https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pure-miracle-d-day-invasion-normandy

A Pure Miracle': The D-Day Invasion of Normandy

"Original caption: "Ours Not To Reason Why --". The beachhead is secure, but the price was high. A Coast Guard Combat Photographer came upon this monument to a dead American soldier somewhere on the shell blasted shore of Normandy. Comrades had used fighting equipment of the killed invaders to erect the monument in his honor before they pressed inland on the heels of Nazis retreating before the irresistible force of the D-Day assault upon Hitler's Atlantic Wall. National Archives at College Park. NAID: 205578609"