On this day in 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops walked, ran, crawled, and swam onto the heavily fortified beaches of Normandy, France. The D-Day invasion marked a turning point in WW2 and ultimately the end of the Nazi regime in Europe.
2499 American service men were killed that first day.
As Ronald Reagan said in 1984 commemorating the 40 anniversary of D Day
"Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which [General] Matthew Ridgway listened: 'I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.' Strengthened by their courage and heartened by their valor and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died."
For all those who served then, and serve now “let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died."
To do anything less would be a disgrace.
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