Woo Hoo!
Sox have taken 2 out of 3 this weekend from the Chokers! My sign proves that I am once again right!
Well, I'm off to bed!
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It's true.
Back!
Got back around 10:15, and left again for a party lol
Now its 1:15 and I'm back and showered and ready for bed...
Twas a good trip.
Gone!
My trip starts tomorrow! I'll be back on Sunday! Adios, everyone!
And since it's baseball-related... I gotta say this:
CHICAGO WHITE SOX-- 6.5 GAME LEAD BABY!!!
It's D-Day.
Bit of a departure from my normal blog. I'm a history buff, so here we go. I want to take today to honor our veterans that are still alive today who fought in World War II. Many of these people took part in the European theatre of the war. Today marks the 64th anniversary of the largest invasion in the history of World War II. Well over three million troops eventually took part in the Invasion of Normandy over several months. This was the beginning of the end of the Nazi regime in Germany.
After the Normandy Invasion, the Allies took Carentan, France, linking the beacheads and allowing more troops than ever to come aboard as casualty rates began to decline. They pushed through France, liberating Paris a couple months later. They then went on to Holland, and that part was a failure. But the Germans continued to be pushed back elsewhere.
In December of 1944, the Fuhrer of Germany launched a counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest, breaking through the Allied line. This could have negated everything that the Allies had accomplished since D-Day. Easy Company of the 506th Airborne hunkered down in Bastogne for over two weeks, hurling everything the Germans could throw back at them. Eventually the Bulge was recaptured and the Germans were in full retreat for the rest of the war.
On April 30, 1945, the German leader committed suicide as the Allies closed in for the Battle of Berlin, possibly the most vicious fighting of the European front of the Second World War.
Thanks to the men who took part in the Normandy Invasion 64 years ago. and started the movement of recapturing Europe for freedom, which ended in the V-E Day culmination of May 8, 1945.
