What important dates in history do you remember?
Younger generations of Americans will always remember the date of Sept 11th 2001 when a band of evil terrorists carried out attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, killing some 3,000 people.
For earlier generations, there were other dates they remember, like December 7th 1941 when Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor.
And for those still living on this day 75 years ago, they will always remember today’s date, June 6th in 1944.
D-Day, the day, that more than 150-thousand American, British and Canadian troops landed on beaches along a 5-mile stretch of coast of northern France.
It was the start of the liberation of Europe and it was the beginning of the end for the Nazi evil that threatened to take over the world.
Tens of thousands of soldiers died that day, as they made the ultimate sacrifice to help preserve the freedoms we so often take for granted in our country today.
The thousands of men who died on this day in 1944 knew that.They knew that with those freedoms comes the responsibility to protect them and preserve them and to fight for them.
Here in 2019, some of these freedoms are being tested or questioned, such as freedom of the press and freedom of religion. Something to think about on this anniversary of D-Day.
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