Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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Special Treat  - Bill Walker

June 6, 2007

Please excuse me for sending this out again.  Today is a special day in my mind.  The longest day of the year 1944 I am sending it once again in memory and honor of all those brave men that lived that day. Many gave their life that day. 

Bill

This I Believe # 15
Bill Walker
missourisage@yahoo.com

This I Believe. The longest day ever, took place 6 June 1944. This
I believe. The day the Allies stormed Hitler's Europe. The Allies
made up of the British, the Canadians, the Australians, the United
States, and the others of the free army units of nations under the
iron boot of Hitler's Germany. The longest day ever. This I Believe

I was a boy  going on 14, I remember the breaking news. Today the
Allies landed troops at Omaha, Juno, Sword, and Utah in France.
These was code names that was used. For a while we had no clue as to
where these places were. It was the greatest build up of men, equipment,
ships and all things needed to carry out
 the plan, ever in the history of this world.
This I Believe.

Many men from all the nations that stormed on to the beach died
trying, many died in the coming days. Men giving their life for
freedom. This I Believe.

I have had people say how could it be the longest day? Let me tell you
something. It had to be the longest day in war fare. It started
long before the sun came up. There was men that went in ahead,
cutting and   clearing out  traps that had been put down. The ships
cut loose with a rolling shelling of the defenses. The planes was over
head bombing. The sun, when it did get up that morning, never seemed to
set. Night was a long time in coming for many. They were just the
ones fighting for inches of beach. This I Believe.

The home folk was glued to a radio, many knew, their sons, their
husband, a loved one was in that bunch of men fighting for those
inches. It had to be the longest day of the year for them also.
This I believe.

I will not write more. I have a mist in my eyes remembering. It is
up to you to go find a old history book and read of that day, and the
days to follow. It was the longest day leading to the fall of
Hitler's Europe, on 8 May 1945. When the lights went on again in Europe.

Many  brave men  never lived to see that last date. All gave their
lives for one thing. FREEDOM. THIS I BELIEVE.


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