Reply #4: Ten years ago...

[CanuckAmok]

...I was fortunate enough to attend the Ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Invasion, at Southhampton, UK. President Clinton was there, and Chretien, and may other leaders. I took my mom, who's dad was a British agent in Denmark during the War. It was a very emotional event, and one I'll never forget.

The most memorable event had to be a tie between the Lancaster dropping a payload of poppies over the Channel, and the handful of D-Day Vets who loaded up into a landing craft in Southhampton and sailed to France, as they had exactly 50 years previous.

Peace.


Statistics, by Carl Sandburg:

"NAPOLEON shifted,
Restless in the old sarcophagus
And murmured to a watchguard:
"Who goes there?"
"Twenty-one million men,
Soldiers, armies, guns,
Twenty-one million
Afoot, horseback,
In the air,
Under the sea."
And Napoleon turned to his sleep:
"It is not my world answering;
It is some dreamer who knows not
The world I marched in
From Calais to Moscow."
And he slept on
In the old sarcophagus
While the aeroplanes
Droned their motors
Between Napoleon's mausoleum
And the cool night stars."