Today marks 82 years since the Allied landings at Normandy, June 6, 1944.
On that morning, nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel and stormed five beaches under withering fire. More than 4,000 Allied soldiers lost their lives that day alone. They were teenagers, farmers, factory workers, and students, ordinary men asked to do something extraordinary.
D-Day didn't end the war, but it broke the door open. Within a year, Europe was free.
We remember them not just for what they did, but for what they made possible.
Lest we forget.