This post is two years old--from June 6, 2019, but the sentiments, and the gratitude, to all those who served in the Allied armed forces, and to all those who endured the "miserable slog" on the home front--never grow old. Thank you. (Auntie Pat will be 98 years old next month; may she live forever.)… Continue reading Auntie Pat Weighs In On the 75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord–Two Years On
Day: June 6, 2021
D-Day Plus Seventy-Seven
Here's Dame Vera Lynn performing aboard the QE2, in the English Channel, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Operation Overlord. What a different time. What a different world. The Forces Sweetheart made it well into the twenty-first century, dying at the age of 103, on June 18, 2020. But here she is, herself at the age… Continue reading D-Day Plus Seventy-Seven