Hey, everybody. Hope you're after a great day wherever you are. It is June 6th, 22. It's a Monday.

We have a big week of news ahead. A lot of items just to have on your radar and be aware of.

And then, of course, if we learned anything over the last several weeks is that the unexpected can really change the news cycle.

So we'll leave some room for that as well. One of the reasons

why I like to prioritize a little bit of history, a dash of history in our news coverage is history

always gives us perspective. It always provides a little added context for the time and place we're in

right now. We're getting that certainly today because June 6, 1944 is the anniversary of D-Day. D-Day is a huge significant battle,

if not the most significant battle of World War II and one of the most significant military

operations in military history. And it happened on this day, 78 years ago. And we have some of the

statistics on our website that really map out just how dynamic this operation truly

was. A couple of things to note on this. D-Day is a term that we use to reference this specific

day, but it's actually a generic military term that can be used even today to reference the start

of an operation. So D-Day is the start of an operation, not necessarily the title of the

operation itself. In fact, the operation itself here was called Operation Overlord, but that's not

something that we use when we talk about this casually. Just to give you an idea of the significance

when it comes to the loss of life, there were more Americans killed in action on D-Day, on this day in 1944,

than killed in action for the entire war in Afghanistan, America's longest war.

What's interesting here is that we know that to be true,

but the precise numbers of killed in actions of casualties, those injured,

those missing, have never completely been confirmed. In fact, it's something that we're struggling

with even today on Smarter News going over some of the research that we have used over the last

several years where there's been a question of what is the final number just because of the sheer numbers of

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