“I’ll see you on the beach!”
And with that, Tom Hanks shepherds us through Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film, Saving Private Ryan, about the D-Day landings and the aftermath of them, for a squad of soldiers.
70 years ago today, the Normandy Landings occurred, without which we would not have the pleasure of blogging for you every day.
D-Day was important as was the aftermath.
The efforts of the Russians on the Eastern Front were in some ways, even more important than the events of D-Day.
Without the Normandy Landings, here are a few things we might have missed in the 20th century:
- Postwar economic expansion
- The rise of nuclear power
- African American Civil Rights
- The rights of women being codifed into law
- The scourge of Communism
- The Internet coming to commercial viability
- And so on, and so on, and so on…
It is notoriously difficult to counterfactualize history, because we only know what did happen, and can never know what could have happened.
But to the grandparents and great-grandparents who did lay down their lives on those beaches, on this day, June 6, 1944, we here at HSCT would like to say thank you for laying down your lives on the altar of liberty.
-Peace Be With You All-
Jesan Sorrells, MA
Principal Conflict Engagement Consultant
Human Services Consulting and Training (HSCT)
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