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65th anniversary today.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.Those left and those lost, thank you.
D-Day
Seasickness, fear
As the beach draws near
Overhead artillery booms
Illuminating Normandy’s morning
With the first flashes of battle.The armada of a thousand ships
Create fear and resolution
in German defenders
Hope in French hearts ignite
Their resistance emerges into light,
Civilians pray these liberators prevail
In this the alllies
Greatest gambleSoldiers in landing craft don their gear
Say final prayer,
Bullets all ’round them
Pierce the air
Announcing the enemy.Landing craft door slaps turbulent surf
Men leap into too deep waters
Amid terrible fire
Many taken by heavy loads
Or enemy fire
To a watery death.Survivors bravely wade to shore,
Amid bullets, shellfire,
the blood and bodies of comrades.Luckier men achieve meagre shelter
Scrambling to the sea wall,
Compelled by an officer shouting
“Only the dead and the soon to be dead
will remain on these beaches under fire.”D-Day, June 6 1944.
Shall this spearhead
Initiate war’s end?
What future for the world
Shall this day portend?Freedoms that we now enjoy
Born from D-Day’s terrible labour
Creating debt to soldiers living and dead
That can never be repaid.
Except that we are thankful,
And promise never to forgetMalcolm Watts
I’ve visited the Normandy beaches – and no, not on D Day… for those sarcastic buggers amongst you – and in some ways it is quite weird to stand there knowing that this is a part of Europe that will always remain in our memories.
The French were a nation of collaborators back then, and they seem to have learnt little from history since. One can see why they were and remain our ‘traditional enemies’. Fortunately, D-Day was more about beating Hitler and the Germans than about liberating France.
For that stupid little French dwarf to try to make the 65th celebrations only a Franco-American affair simply confirms that he should stick with shagging models taller than himself and remember that, if it wasn’t for the Allies, he would now be growing cabbages somewhere in Greater Germany.
God help us
@will wrote:
is d day world war 2?
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What are they teaching people in school today?
Whatever happened to Education educashun, eddukaton?
will..
D day was the day that the allies began to claim back France from the Germans in the 2nd ww by a surprise invasion from the sea… by storming the beaches in Normandy
not to be confused with V E day which happened almost a year later on may 8th when the allies claimed total victory all through Europe and that was followed by the Japanese surrender in August 1945 thus bringing the war to a close..
Am glad my A level history was good for something at last!
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