…since the troops hit the beach at Normandy. It wasn’t as bold a military gamble as killing bin Laden (just ask Joe Biden), but still. Let’s hope we have a different president to commemorate the seventieth anniversary.
[Update a while later]
Here’s Reagan’s commemoration twenty-eight years ago, on the fortieth anniversary:
[Update later morning]
Well, it was inevitable, and it didn’t take long — Hitler has found out about it.
It’s hard to believe that was almost thirty years ago. I’ve probably mentioned this before, but I remember almost forty years ago, on the thirtieth anniversary, and my mother remarking that it was hard to believe that it had been thirty years (she had been a WAC in Egypt at the time). She’s been gone over twenty years now.
And Google’s doodle commemorates…the 79th anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in movie theater. I wonder what percentage of the population even knows what a drive-in movie theater is.
It is a really cool doodle, though…
Another impressive point re: the Normandy invasion, ONE WEEK later US forces conducted another invasion of equal size to the the American forces at Normandy. On the other side of the planet. Against the island Siapan out in the middle of the Pacific.
And silence from the Obama, which is not surprising from the man who closed down the Vietnam memorial on Memorial Day for 7 or so hours so he could have a 15 min photo op.
OMG. Another Downfall parody. Just as funny as the first one. They never get old. If you aren’t splitting your sides at the sly and subtle humor of this one, you either have no sense of humor, or are not a Republican.