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It Was the Longest Day . . . Our Boys Showed Unbelievable Courage on June 6, 1944


ANNIVERSARY D-Day


Could America under Biden pull off such a victory today?


BY DAVID GIAMMONA WITH TROY ANDERSON


sion nicknamed the Big Red One (because of the patch worn with the large number one in bold red).


T The sheer emotion of walking where fellow


soldiers once battled the Nazi regime was over- whelming. I could not help but think of the utter terror


and bravery of stepping off one of those landing crafts in the face of withering machine gun and artillery fire from the experienced German infan- try division, 100 meters from the water line. We were in Normandy to walk the beaches of D-Day, June 6, 1944, and conduct a memorial


ears flooded my eyes and ran down my face as I walked Omaha Beach in 1994 with members of my unit, a heavy tank battalion, the 1-63 Armor of the famed 1st Infantry Divi-


ceremony at one of the beach’s cemeteries where the fallen of the Big Red One were buried. Today, as I recall walking the beaches and see-


ing the empty German bunkers and other fortifi- cations, I wonder if America, 80 years later, has the strength and fortitude to do this again. Nowadays we depend heavily on our military technologies, and diplomatic and economic su- periority. But is that enough in the face of looming


threats worldwide, geopolitical turmoil, and es- pecially China with its eye on Taiwan? Or how about the growing possibility that


Russia decides to expand its military campaign beyond Ukraine into Europe, where some na- tions are already preparing for war? And that does not take into account the poten-


tial of the Israel-Hamas war growing into a much more dangerous Middle East conflagration.


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