Every year on this day, I always go back and re-read a section from Andy Rooney's 1995 book, "My War."
There have been only a handful of days since the beginning of time on which the direction the world was taking has been changed for the better in only one twenty-four hour period by an act of man. June 6, 1944, was one of them.
What the Americans, the British, and the Canadians were trying to do was get back an entire continent that had been taken from its rightful owners and whose citizens had been taken captive by Adolf Hitler's German army. It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people ever did for another.
Well you got me interested in another book. Never read anything Andy Rooney wrote, but always enjoyed him.
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