The cloudy day 62 years ago...

[CDailey]

Let's all remember the fallen heros who faught for our freedom.

Really? Then the members of the band The Red Jumpsuit Aparatus (WTF kind of a name is that!?) are my first victims.

Sad thing is, I personally know those guys.

 

[Touring Mars]

Shamefully little news about this in the UK media... Inch for inch, there is a thousand times more news about a bone in a Scouser's foot than there is about the commemoration of D-Day...

 

[McLaren]

According to wikipedia for the war in entirety:
Country-Population-military deaths-civilean deaths-TOTAL
United Kingdom[50] 47,800,000- 382,600- 67,800- 450,400
United States[51] 132,000,000- 407,300- 11,200- 418,500

It's great that you salute the bravery of those before you and what they did in the name of freedom, but you have to admit Famine is right in the argument that he is presenting. The Allies won because we pulled together and worked to be free from nazi oppression. However, there is still the fact that the Americans entered the war in '41 if I remember correctly and it was countries in Europe that were holding the nazi machine back. As for casulties, I believe that Russia suffered the worse for the Allies.

That also includes civilians, many of which I'm sure came from the London bombings every 9 months.

And Famine, I see Solid's point. Yes, they were allied together, but out of the whole D-Day, which country do you think had the hardest time? Perhaps, it was those silly rednecks who barely could make it out of the water.......

 

[High-Test]

I have to say that the very few surviving people who took part in Operation Overlord deserve a huge Homage. From the French Resistance who took out communications and rail lines, to the British and Canadian Paratroopers, to the 82nd Airborne that landed in the wrong places. If it weren't for these people, We'd all be speaking German or Russian right now.


May all those who didn't ever make it home rest in peace.