As we read our choice of newspaper, magazine or take in our preferred version of television provided news, whether it be cable or network, mainstream media or from talking heads of a particular political persuasion, we're bombarded with just how tough the times we live in have become....Even with the civil unrest associated with the ongoing protests and the all-out war against the Covid-19 virus, todays difficulties pale in comparison to those occurring 76 years ago this week. I wasn't three months old yet and the Greatest Generation's finest were preparing to assault the beaches at Normandy.

As I stroke these keys, it will soon be the 76th anniversary of the "D Day" invasion to liberate France, and the rest of Europe during the World War II. As a child of the war, born in 1944, my generation has grown up not reading about WW II, but being told of first-hand experiences by our parents and grandparents. But now, as the actual participants, witnesses, and just plain citizens, who lived through these horrific times in American history, are quickly vanishing from our society, the story seems to be becoming just that....    (MORE)