DD day landing commemoration

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   I am sure many SF contributers  , will have either noted( or watched, as I have) several programmes on TV and radio, regarding DD day.This if course leads on to the 6th June commemoration in a shirt while..80years.
To listen to the veterans,  many now either in their 90's, or a few over 100, was incredibly  moving.
There were tears in the eyes of my wife and myself.

This was of the mist pivotal moments in history, and the bravery of those who fought, abd ithers who contributed in so nany ither ways is awe inspiring .
I had a moment ( chance meeting),  on Caldey Island a week yesterday with two American sisters, currently  touring Wales, before making their way to Normandy to honour their late grandfather,  who fell there.
It was a touching story of a boy who had previously never left the farm in  Minnasotta,  yet like so many others came with the belief we were fighting  evil,  for a better future and consequently gave their lives.
So many black Americans came, second class citizens in swathes  of their own country,  yet they too came,  and died fighting  for places they had never heard of. It was a touching, and moving brief encounter.

I also remember  my grandfather  telling me, about one of the young mam , a rent collector,  in Llanelli  town Hall, who had worked with Grandpa, who was one of the waves of troops who followed on from the initial  Normandy  beach assault,  costing so many lives.
When he returned, he said that fighting  was fierce, but once they had liberated  Frech towns, people lined the streets in tears, despite suffering allied bombing. People were struggling in these places, starving, yet offered allied troops food, or whatever they had. It was an emotional  moment .

The sacrifice of so many is somthing  which we must never forget,  particularly  as we are currently  experiencing  such tyranny on the world stage. 