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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
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