June 6, 1944 - remember D-Day

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/06/06/d-day-galleries/28595931/

All gave something

Some gave everything.

They are remembered

They will always be remembered.

Thank you for this.

My mother and her mother were hiding for two years in an attic in Paris, my uncle living under an assumed name on a farm in Brittany. For them, D-Day was a miracle and even when we were adults and living far from her, my mother would ring to remind us that it was D-Day morning.

I don't know why we've let civilisation rush headlong into creating what seem like perfect conditions for such totalitarianism, again. We seem to have let intolerance and bigotry bloom everywhere while allowing injustice to look reasonable. How could we have forgotten the smell, the taste and feel of such horror

A friend sent this to me very recently - I watched it and thought it was worth taking a look at.

http://io9.com/this-animated-data-visualization-of-world-war-ii-fatali-1709065880#