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Four granddaughters, grandchildren, son or descendant of American generals met at the Airborne Museum of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, this Saturday afternoon for the 71st D-Day.

Nice photo of families this Saturday at the museum Airborne: Helen Patton, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the famous American generals regained John Gavin, grand-son of General James M. Gavin, and Harry Roosevelt, the family of the former President of the United States, beginning 'afternoon.

My dad was a WW2 vet, of the 100th Division - wounded in the Vosges mountains in northern France, after shipping into Marseilles and riding the "40 & 8" French boxcars across France.

I don't have "The Longest Day", but if I did, it would be a double feature.

R&K

but I feels ya. Just watched "Ryan" a few weeks ago. A good day for a "Brothers" reprise.

It was called Stalingrad.

Whether you were military, underground, or simply trying to survive. Too many deaths.

Stalingrad was indeed amazing. So many deaths.

My two Canadian uncles both landed on Normandy and survived the war.

Europeans. Risking your life to defend or liberate your own country takes courage. Doing it for others takes a special kind of courage.

But some wars must be fought. When faced with the forces of tyranny, conquest, and genocide, you fight them...and you win.

there are no Great Wars or "wars that must be fought". 48 million people died in just one war; many of them were great people who would have made this world a better place if they had lived. After World War I we said "This will be the last one; after World War II we said "never again." What did we learn?
It doesn't take courage to send our children to war; it takes insanity. The greatest acts of pure courage where men win glory are not at Normandy or Iwo Jima or the jungles of Vietnam or the sands of Iraq; real courage is when they say No More War and mean it.