1944, June 6th, the massive invasion of fortress Europe, with the intent to defeat, depose, and destroy the Nazi war-machine lands on the north coast of France. A military operation massive in its scale, scope, and objectives it represented the culmination of untold countless hours of labor, training, and deception and still it possessed the risk of utter failure. The harrowing assault on the beaches is something that boggles the imagination and cost many lives in the idea that people should be free. We should always remember the bravery, the almost unimaginable courage of the men who stormed that beach.

We need to also remember that our own house was far from in order during that time. We fought for freedom, yet regularly denied it based up the concentration of a chemical in a person’s skin, or because of their myths where not our myths. Our failing in the past does not and never has discredited our ideals but rather we must learn from those failings, strive to achieve our true ideals, never fail to show the courage those ideal require.