71 Years Ago Today

[FirefightnRick]

 

A very cool look at one photographers' work superimposing images from the past over images from the present.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/339078-the-ghosts-of-d-day-photographer-recreates-breathtaking-images-of-the-invasion-then-and-now/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Organic&utm_content=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Military

God Bless our brave U.S. soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice on the morning of this day, 71 years ago so that others in Europe may live in peace.

There ya go.  That positive enough for ya?

 

Rick

 

[H-towngreen]

There's a reason they are called The Greatest Generation.

[FirefightnRick]

There's a reason they are called The Greatest Generation.

Yessir!  Agree!

 

 

Rick

[CMJ]

Twenty six years before that (June 6th, 1918), the US Second Division (half army, half marines) began another monumental battle in the previous World War.  Re-posting this article from last fall.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/travel/where-americans-turned-the-tide-in-world-war-i.html?src=xps&_r=1

Edited June 6, 2015 by CMJ

[drex]

And to think of the sacrifices they made to allow us to have the mess we have now.

[DeepGreen]

And to think of the sacrifices they made to allow us to have the mess we have now.

So true......sad, but so very true.