Tag: Freedom

Omaha Beach: in peace nearly 70 years after war

The peaceful, windswept sands of Omaha Beach today are a stark contrast to the scenes witnessed 70 years ago when those sands were stained with the blood of so many brave young men killed or wounded fighting to breach Hitler’s Atlantic Wall on 6th June 1944 and so begin...

D-Day: Remembering the sacrifices made so we could be free, 68 years ago

Sixty-eight years ago, today, 6th June 1944, D-Day was underway.  In his Order of the Day, General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, spoke movingly of the great crusade being undertaken in the cause of freedom; his simple words belying the immensity of the task and the heroism and strength...