A Large Regular

Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com

Friday, June 07, 2019

D-Day's 75th Anniversary

Yesterday was the actual anniversary but here's some items you may have missed:

- The "epic human tragedy" of the first wave at Omaha Beach. Long read but worth the time.

- Some D-Day veterans still have plenty of spunk

- The photo - the story

- This gave me chills.

- A collection of colorized D-Day photos

- Wow - just wow.

- Ernie Pyle's D-Day ledger

- New England Patriots long snapper Joe Cardona a Naval Academy graduate who is also serving on active duty in the Navy was promoted to lieutenant on the 75th anniversary of D-Day in a ceremony that was witnessed by the entire team. 

Posted by chris at 11:15 AM
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: D-Day, Ernie Pyle, Joe Cardona, New England Patriots, Omaha Beach, Photography, US Navy

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Followers

My Blog List

  • A Layman's Blog
    While certainly not an early...................
    1 day ago
  • Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Baseball Statistics and History
  • Borepatch
    Dad Joke CCCLI
    1 day ago
  • BOSTON Sports Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings, Rumors - ESPN Boston
  • Collaborative Fund (Morgan Housel)
    What Comes Next Isn’t a Product. It’s a Provocation.
    1 week ago
  • Cultural Offering
    “Men can always be blind to a thing, so long as it is big enough.”
    6 hours ago
  • EconTalk - Archive
  • Execupundit.com
    Classic Country
    2 hours ago
  • Farnam Street
    Outliers: Harvey Firestone—Men and Rubber [The Knowledge Project Ep. #231]
    3 hours ago
  • HMS Defiant
    A NEW PARLOR TRICK
    15 hours ago
  • Huberman Lab
    Guest Series | Dr. Paul Conti: How to Build and Maintain Healthy Relationships
    1 year ago
  • IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities - IMDb
  • Instapundit
    FLASHBACK: Retired WNBA Player Reveals She Was Bullied for Being Straight. “Wiggins, a four-time All
    11 months ago
  • Isegoria
    Angola is one of the African nation states with natural geographical borders
    1 day ago
  • Marginal REVOLUTION
    My first big bout of media exposure
    12 hours ago
  • Melting Asphalt
    Outbreak
    5 years ago
  • Mitigating Chaos
    On The Past
    3 hours ago
  • NASA TV
  • Naval
  • Newmark's Door
    "Extraterrestrial tongues"
    7 hours ago
  • Nicholas Bate
    On Writing, 153
    3 days ago
  • Old AF Sarge
    I Am ...
    8 hours ago
  • Paul Graham Essays
  • QAspire by Tanmay Vora
    Thriving in the Age of AI: Head, Hands, and Heart
    2 months ago
  • RealClearPolitics
    This Is a War of Attrition, and Harvard's Going To Lose
    4 hours ago
  • RealClearSports: Sports News, Opinions & Analysis
  • Reason.com
    Supreme Court Narrows Scope of NEPA Review
    2 hours ago
  • Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | TV Shows | Movie Trailers | Reviews
  • Some It's Just As Well
    4 hours ago
  • Sons of Sam Horn
    5/28/2025 - Breakfast in the Barre & a Double Double in the Low Minors
    12 hours ago
  • Stephen Landry's Blog
    Twilight. 4:30 am. 57° F. May 28, 2025. Cove Island Park. Stamford, CT (@dkct25)
    5 hours ago
  • Steven Pressfield
    3 Brains, Part Two
    1 day ago
  • Tablet Magazine
  • The 016
  • The Athletic – Fall in love with the sports page again.
  • The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
    The Random Show — New Health Gadgets, Tim’s Latest Adventures, How to Drink Less, Zen Retreats, AI + Your Genome, and Colonoscopy Confessions (#812)
    6 days ago
  • The Feral Irishman
    FLORIDA MAN
    14 hours ago
  • The Happy Curmudgeon
    “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on…
    5 months ago
  • The New Criterion
    Week in review
    5 days ago
  • The Ringer - All
    Western Conference Confidence Scale | Group Chat
    5 months ago
  • The Ugly Duckling
    Sometimes mothers kick their daughters' boyfriends out in the middle of winter.
    1 month ago
  • The View from Lady Lake
    Break problems in to small, manageable chunks...
    51 minutes ago
  • VDH's Blade of Perseus
    Vertigo: Things That Unmake the Democratic Party
    8 hours ago
  • Visual Capitalist
    The Global Defense Industry in One Chart
    2 hours ago
  • Wikipedia
  • Yahoo! Sports - Sports News, Scores, Rumors, Fantasy Games, and more
Show 10 Show All

Blog Archive

  • ►  2025 (925)
    • ►  May (173)
    • ►  April (188)
    • ►  March (197)
    • ►  February (177)
    • ►  January (190)
  • ►  2024 (2320)
    • ►  December (204)
    • ►  November (181)
    • ►  October (196)
    • ►  September (185)
    • ►  August (200)
    • ►  July (184)
    • ►  June (188)
    • ►  May (205)
    • ►  April (192)
    • ►  March (197)
    • ►  February (187)
    • ►  January (201)
  • ►  2023 (2032)
    • ►  December (188)
    • ►  November (187)
    • ►  October (185)
    • ►  September (186)
    • ►  August (188)
    • ►  July (181)
    • ►  June (130)
    • ►  May (122)
    • ►  April (160)
    • ►  March (175)
    • ►  February (156)
    • ►  January (174)
  • ►  2022 (2050)
    • ►  December (177)
    • ►  November (166)
    • ►  October (180)
    • ►  September (165)
    • ►  August (179)
    • ►  July (172)
    • ►  June (171)
    • ►  May (164)
    • ►  April (161)
    • ►  March (186)
    • ►  February (155)
    • ►  January (174)
  • ►  2021 (1586)
    • ►  December (193)
    • ►  November (185)
    • ►  October (203)
    • ►  September (117)
    • ►  August (117)
    • ►  July (117)
    • ►  June (118)
    • ►  May (97)
    • ►  April (111)
    • ►  March (113)
    • ►  February (102)
    • ►  January (113)
  • ►  2020 (1061)
    • ►  December (109)
    • ►  November (92)
    • ►  October (99)
    • ►  September (90)
    • ►  August (86)
    • ►  July (95)
    • ►  June (92)
    • ►  May (72)
    • ►  April (87)
    • ►  March (85)
    • ►  February (70)
    • ►  January (84)
  • ▼  2019 (897)
    • ►  December (79)
    • ►  November (74)
    • ►  October (83)
    • ►  September (71)
    • ►  August (89)
    • ►  July (75)
    • ▼  June (70)
      • Linky Links
      • Remembering Gettysburg
      • This is Why I Don't Like the Eagles
      • NBA Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Linky Links
      • Treaty of Versailles
      • Linky Links
      • I Need You - America
      • This Week in Musk World
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Linky Links
      • I Never Believed in UFO's but...
      • Bourdain Day
      • 3 Rules for Losing Weight
      • Another Irish Drinking Song
      • Linky Links
      • Funny Because Its True
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Linky Links
      • Redemption Day - Sheryl Crow and Johnny Cash
      • Linky Links
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Linky Links
      • Socialism
      • Ph. D - Poor, Hungry and Determined
      • The State of the Celtics
      • Truth
      • Linky Links
      • This Week in Musk World
      • 20 Pictures that Could Teach You More than 100 Books
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Linky Links
      • US Military
      • Linky Links
      • Protest in Hong Kong
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Heh Heh
      • Happy Fathers Day
      • Heh Heh
      • Is Artificial Intelligence Alive?
      • The Man in the Arena
      • Deepfake AI
      • Linky Links
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Congrats to the Blues from a Bruins Fan
      • Kissinger on Kissinger
      • Life Advice
      • Linky Links
      • Godfather Thought for the Day
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Top 5 - Films with Ned Beatty
      • Two Weeks in Musk World
      • Climate Change and the Sahara
      • Linky Links
      • Weekend Safety Brief
      • New England Patriots
      • D-Day's 75th Anniversary
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • June 6: A Walk Across a Beach in Normandy
      • 75th Anniversary of D-Day
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • Jack Handy Deep Thought for the Day
      • Linky Links
      • The Scream
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
      • The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
      • More True in Europe than America...
      • Linky Links
      • "My Grandfather's Secret D-Day Journal"
      • Flotsam and Jetsam
    • ►  May (67)
    • ►  April (70)
    • ►  March (73)
    • ►  February (68)
    • ►  January (78)
  • ►  2018 (799)
    • ►  December (77)
    • ►  November (73)
    • ►  October (83)
    • ►  September (66)
    • ►  August (70)
    • ►  July (65)
    • ►  June (67)
    • ►  May (75)
    • ►  April (56)
    • ►  March (37)
    • ►  February (63)
    • ►  January (67)
  • ►  2017 (494)
    • ►  December (65)
    • ►  November (55)
    • ►  October (45)
    • ►  September (40)
    • ►  August (40)
    • ►  July (40)
    • ►  June (38)
    • ►  May (34)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (39)
    • ►  February (39)
    • ►  January (43)
  • ►  2016 (446)
    • ►  December (40)
    • ►  November (45)
    • ►  October (48)
    • ►  September (44)
    • ►  August (31)
    • ►  July (32)
    • ►  June (39)
    • ►  May (30)
    • ►  April (34)
    • ►  March (37)
    • ►  February (36)
    • ►  January (30)
  • ►  2015 (389)
    • ►  December (34)
    • ►  November (32)
    • ►  October (33)
    • ►  September (29)
    • ►  August (19)
    • ►  July (24)
    • ►  June (34)
    • ►  May (22)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (38)
    • ►  February (52)
    • ►  January (56)
  • ►  2014 (322)
    • ►  December (64)
    • ►  November (49)
    • ►  October (17)
    • ►  September (22)
    • ►  August (22)
    • ►  July (24)
    • ►  June (18)
    • ►  May (20)
    • ►  April (14)
    • ►  March (19)
    • ►  February (29)
    • ►  January (24)
  • ►  2013 (246)
    • ►  December (27)
    • ►  November (27)
    • ►  October (15)
    • ►  September (17)
    • ►  August (22)
    • ►  July (21)
    • ►  June (23)
    • ►  May (22)
    • ►  April (24)
    • ►  March (14)
    • ►  February (13)
    • ►  January (21)
  • ►  2012 (570)
    • ►  December (34)
    • ►  November (37)
    • ►  October (52)
    • ►  September (34)
    • ►  August (54)
    • ►  July (64)
    • ►  June (51)
    • ►  May (45)
    • ►  April (42)
    • ►  March (58)
    • ►  February (41)
    • ►  January (58)
  • ►  2011 (482)
    • ►  December (52)
    • ►  November (40)
    • ►  October (33)
    • ►  September (46)
    • ►  August (33)
    • ►  July (50)
    • ►  June (54)
    • ►  May (36)
    • ►  April (33)
    • ►  March (30)
    • ►  February (34)
    • ►  January (41)
  • ►  2010 (385)
    • ►  December (42)
    • ►  November (35)
    • ►  October (28)
    • ►  September (30)
    • ►  August (26)
    • ►  July (30)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (34)
    • ►  April (33)
    • ►  March (42)
    • ►  February (29)
    • ►  January (30)
  • ►  2009 (560)
    • ►  December (59)
    • ►  November (40)
    • ►  October (36)
    • ►  September (45)
    • ►  August (38)
    • ►  July (73)
    • ►  June (57)
    • ►  May (51)
    • ►  April (48)
    • ►  March (44)
    • ►  February (28)
    • ►  January (41)
  • ►  2008 (545)
    • ►  December (36)
    • ►  November (32)
    • ►  October (27)
    • ►  September (49)
    • ►  August (36)
    • ►  July (38)
    • ►  June (46)
    • ►  May (50)
    • ►  April (60)
    • ►  March (51)
    • ►  February (52)
    • ►  January (68)
  • ►  2007 (872)
    • ►  December (71)
    • ►  November (71)
    • ►  October (93)
    • ►  September (68)
    • ►  August (76)
    • ►  July (76)
    • ►  June (72)
    • ►  May (64)
    • ►  April (63)
    • ►  March (76)
    • ►  February (59)
    • ►  January (83)
  • ►  2006 (1064)
    • ►  December (82)
    • ►  November (74)
    • ►  October (78)
    • ►  September (71)
    • ►  August (82)
    • ►  July (96)
    • ►  June (89)
    • ►  May (112)
    • ►  April (85)
    • ►  March (96)
    • ►  February (94)
    • ►  January (105)
  • ►  2005 (1231)
    • ►  December (104)
    • ►  November (109)
    • ►  October (103)
    • ►  September (121)
    • ►  August (111)
    • ►  July (95)
    • ►  June (78)
    • ►  May (87)
    • ►  April (89)
    • ►  March (104)
    • ►  February (112)
    • ►  January (118)
  • ►  2004 (1351)
    • ►  December (114)
    • ►  November (85)
    • ►  October (124)
    • ►  September (145)
    • ►  August (133)
    • ►  July (100)
    • ►  June (140)
    • ►  May (135)
    • ►  April (192)
    • ►  March (183)
Picture Window theme. Powered by Blogger.