More Than Just A Day
“Sacrifice is meaningless without remembrance.” -Unknown Today is the 70th Anniversary of D-Day. I have always been fascinated by WWII history, and I've always gravitated toward WWII books and films, but for the longest time it was merely history that lived in a book to me. Not the lives that my grandparents lived before I was even blip in the universe. Not the stories that only came out when their generation--who had already lived through the worst and survived--reached old age and began to come to terms with their true mortality. My brief time in the military thankfully changed some of that. As the last of our WWII vets leave this earth, and as their experiences become more and more distant to both our generation and future generations, the need to write them down before they are lost seems ever more urgent. Some of the memories and stories of that great generation that I’ve encountered are beginning to elude even me as the years go by. So I'm using my quiet time