Our obligation today to the brave heroes of D-Day 75 years ago

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Our obligation today to the brave heroes of D-Day 75 years ago
We remember the brave men and boys who fought evil under terrifying circumstances, but remembering them is not enough.


D-Day veterans gather during a D-Day commemoration event at the Historical Dockyard in Portsmouth, southern England, on June 2, 2019. Photo Credit: AP/Andrew Matthews
By The Editorial Board
June 5, 2019

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, American, British and Canadian troops began landing on the beaches of Normandy to start wresting Europe from Adolf Hitler and his fascist forces.

About 153,000 men and boys, 76,000 of them Americans, tumbled out of transports into the cold waters or dropped from the sky that day. Each was hobbled by 80 pounds of gear and the terror borne of swarms of bullets coming at them. Ahead lay battlefields strewn with sharpened stakes, barbed wire and land mines, protected by German machine guns fired from sheltered fortresses on the bluffs above.

Behind these soldiers stood the might and pride and love of Americans and our Allies, united in a shared purpose, fighting the most terrible evil our nation and the countries who shared our ideals had ever faced. This was a war not just between nations but between belief systems, with good men dying to stop fascism and genocide.

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