We are minutes away from the 60th anniversary of D-day. The Canadians landed
at Juno beach. (
Some
news)
(
Some history).
The U.S. has a long history of movies commemorating it's role in war, including
D-day as have other smaller countries
like
Australia (WW1).
Canadians have written some good books about our wars like
"And
No Bird Sang" and
"The
Wars" (Amazon links) and the
NFB
and the
CBC have done many a
documentary
but we never seem to have done a great film to commemorate our fighting men.
Hell, even recently deceased President
Reagan remembered
Canada's role in the D-day fighting. Why have we no great film for what our
men did or about that cold blooded murder at
Abbaye
d'Ardenne on D-day?
We can a least remember them via the
Juno
Beach Centre.
posted by arse_hat
on Jun 6, 2004 -
16 comments
D-Day was 57 years ago yesterday. It was 16 years before
an article in the Atlantic finally provided Americans an unvarnished account of the carnage that was Omaha Beach that day. I'm in awe of what these 19-year-olds went through.
posted by luser
on Jun 7, 2001 -
1 comment
It's D-Day Someone at work shared this Ernie Pyle column published just 10 days after the 1944 invasion of Normandy. It put a lump in my throat. Maybe it'll do the same for you. Excerpt: "I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France.
It was a lovely day for strolling along the seashore. Men were sleeping on the sand, some of them sleeping forever. Men were floating in the water, but they didn't know they were in the water, for they were dead."
posted by GaelFC
on Jun 6, 2001 -
14 comments
