After reviewing hundreds of articles written this June 6, 2008 to commemorate D-Day one has really stuck out for me as worthy of praise.
Robert Kauffman’s Waves of Omaha Beach is a really a remarkable article exploring the emotional pull of the American cemetery at St. Laurent sur Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. Kauffman, after visiting the grave of a fallen American soldier, writes:
I’d like to cry out to all of those young men: ”You were robbed of the most sublime gift that we possess, your very lives. But we, too, were robbed — of you and your love, your hopes, your dreams and your aspirations; of those thousands of precious sons and daughters you never had the privilege to father and who would have borne the image of your greatness; of those thousands of grandchildren you would never hold or hug or kiss.
The article is worth reading because it is so different from the standard anniversary articles full of gore and triumphalism.
Tags: d-day, omaha beach, world war 2
