Normandy, France on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the DDay Landings

I attended the 60th Anniversary Commemoration ceremonies at Normandy on June 6th 2004.  The valor of the troops who strugged through the surf and on the beach under murderous defensive fire, and the intrepidity of those who preceded them jumping into the blackness of night to an uncertain fare with their C47’s aflame from anti-aircraft fire, and the courage of the tin can destroyer sailors who came under point blank fire to deliver shore bombardment support to the struggling troops was palpable.  I had the special privilege of being in the very same bunker atop the bluffs at Pointe Du Hoc with Rangers who sixty years before had scaled the 100′ cliffs to take that very same bunker.   Words are inadequate to the task – so I hope that these photos will tell a thousand words. In that hope, I have attached this YouTube which I arranged to remember their sacrifices.