[Snorri]

....raise a glass at 23:16 hours tonight in honour of the men from D Coy. Ox & Bucks Light Infantry who landed in S/Sgt Jim Wallwork's horsa glider in occupied France as the spearpoint of the invasion.

....raise a second glass at 04:30 (if you are awake) in memory of the first wave of troops who landed on the beaches of Normandy 65 years ago.

Of the 156,001 who landed, approximatly 10,000 died on that one day.

A further 226,376 soldiers were to die before the allied forces broke out from the Normandy beachhead on August 25, 1944.

Thier Name Liveth For Evermore.

This post has been edited by Snorri: 05 June 2009 - 09:55 PM

[MrJohnDClare]

Yes I will.
Without them, nothing.

What does it say?

'When you go home
tell them of us and say,
for your tomorrow
we gave our today..'

[Miss Buxton]

Me too!

We owe those brave men a lot!

[Snorri]

MrJohnDClare, on Jun 5 2009, 07:19 PM, said:

Yes I will.
Without them, nothing.

What does it say?

'When you go home
tell them of us and say,
for your tomorrow
we gave our today..'

Those are the words of the Kohima Memorial in India to the British 2nd Division.


Another favourite verse of mine (as my grandad was a gunner/Flt. Engineer on Lancs in WW2) is Requiem for a Rear Gunner:

My brief sweet life is over,
My eyes no longer see,

No summer walks,
No Christmas trees,
No pretty girls for me

I've got the chop,
I've had it,
My nightly Ops are done,

Yet in another hundred years,
I'll still be twenty-one.
R. W. Gilbert