cj Sez: Seventy-five years ago, on June 6, 1944, the Allied
Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the
coast of Normandy, France. With a force of more than 150,000, the Allies gained
a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.
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| D-Day Order of the Day (National Archives Identifier 186473) |
Every year Normandy celebrates the long summer of 1944 and the re-establishment of freedom: “Normandy will bear the scars of this moment in history forever and every year we remember and pay tribute to the veterans from America, Britain, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Poland and Australia, along with their brothers in arms, those many heroes who lost their lives here during that summer of 1944.”
D-Day, the day now often referred to as “the beginning of
the end of war in Europe,” was originally code-named Operation Overlord.
Operation Overlord was supposed to start June 5, 1944, under
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower's orders, but bad weather delayed the
invasion. So a day later, Ike called it a “go,” and the Allies invaded five beaches—code-named
Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
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| (Source: National World War II Museum) |
(Various sources for text, including https://www.history.com/news/landing-at-normandy-the-5-beaches-of-d-day
)
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My uncle waded ashore on one of those beaches and was “different”
when he came home. Shell-shocked was what they called PTSD back then.
My friend Fen was two weeks shy of his 21st birthday on
D-Day. He served with Patton until the end of the war. A world traveler and
writer/poet, he now calls Savannah home.
Sixteen million young Americans served in World War II, and
in this 75th anniversary year, the survivors are in their 80s and 90s. According
to the Department of Veteran Affairs, more than 300 World War II veterans die
every day. Time is running out to honor these survivors for their courage,
their service and their sacrifice.
If you know a WWII veteran, whether s/he served on active
duty or stoked the fires on the home front, it’s a good day, every day, to say “Thank
You” to a member of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation.”
cj Sez: Sa-lute and God Bless.
That’s it for this week’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping
on, and I’ll try to do the same.
Free on Kindle Unlimited at the time of this post: a thriller with a touch of romance . . . DEADLY
STAR
cj Sez: One of my sons came up with the premise
for Deadly Star. "What if what looks like an asteroid was really a
satellite?" he said one night. "Suppose it was a weapon?" My
imagination took over and gobs of research followed. One of the more
interesting things I found was that in the 1990s, the U.S. government funded
something called "Operation Dawgstar" and provided grants to college
students to develop nanosatellites. I also discovered that nanosatellites were
actually launched from the space station in 2001 and that they possibly could
go undetected by world powers. The surprise meteor that hit Russia in February
2013 proved that premise to me. The meteor was reported to be as big a
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stuff . . . and Deadly Star is the result.
Blurb: Mirabel Campbell must learn how to stay alive in a covert
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find out what’s so special about a mysterious point of light in the sky, and
she intends to keep that promise.
Little note: Print copies of Choosing Carter and Deadly Star
are no longer available as Simon&Schuster winds down their support of the
Crimson Romance imprint. You can, however, support an indie book store and
order an autographed copy of my print books here: The Haunted Bookshop
Angela Trigg, the awesome owner and a RITA Award-winning author in her own
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