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Keith Lane

Keith Lane

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Let's not forget that 66 years ago 2500 American as well as 1900 other allied soldiers gave their lives in order that Europe might be free of Nazi rule.

http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm#casualities

The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate - and much higher - figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2500 dead).
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I took exception that our preacher (a combat veteran of Vietnam) did not have a clue that it was the anniversary of D-Day.
 
The guy I sit next to in choir went ashore on Omaha beach - but as he puts it: "Not on D-day, much later, that's why I'm still alive". He missed the battle of the bulge also - he was recuperating in a Paris hospital from shrapnel wounds in his back.

He reminded me that today was D-Day.
 
My mother-in-law came ashore on Omaha Beach on June 7, 1944. Army nurse. Go to the US cemetary there. Freedom isn't free. We must never forget.
 
I have no family connections to Operation Overlord, but God Bless all those who made the landing, and who made the landing possible. We all live with the results, and the indebtedness, to those who served back then.

-Skip
 
Good job, reminding us. And the Vietnam combat veteran preacher that forgot it was D-Day. He has EARNED the right to forget, and gets a livelong PASS.
 
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