3 Reasons to Feel Good About Today's Patriots Victory over Cowboys

On the cover of the GameDay magazine Lt US Navy Reserve and Patriots long snapper Joe Cardona was honored as part of today's "Salute to Service."

Before today's game the Patriots honored the memory of Worcester firefighter Lt. Jason Menard who recently gave the last full measure of devotion saving others in a four-alarm fire.

During the game each member of the Patriots wore decals of the initials of a military service member who paid the ultimate sacrifice. The were 26 fallen service members total who were honored. All had family ties to New England. Patriots did this in partnership with the Tragedy Assistance  Program for Survivors (TAPS).

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.