Tag: June 6

  • D-Day 79 years later: the battle that was the beginning of the end of WWII

    Today is the 79th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. Over 150,000 Allied forces took part in the invasion. Over a million men were part of the overall battle of Normandy. Thousands of ships and planes. Even trying to fathom the size of the operation is impossible to comprehend.   It remains the largest seaborne invasion…

  • What D-Day can teach us about faithful service

    What do baseball hall of famer Yogi Berra, legendary actor Henry Fonda, “Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness), and Scottie from the original Star Trek (James Doohan) have in common? All were part of the Normandy invasion. 75 years ago tomorrow, Allied forces invaded Normandy, France which had been occupied…

  • D-Day teaches us about faithful service

    What do baseball hall of famer Yogi Berra, legendary actor Henry Fonda, “Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness), and Scottie from the original Star Trek (James Doohan) have in common? All were part of the Normandy invasion. 74 years ago today, Allied forces invaded Normandy, France which had been occupied…