Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post, Remembering D-Day.

Franklin Roosevelt said,

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy,

forget in time that men have died to win them.

Tomorrow, June 6th, is the anniversary of D-Day, the very costly but successful turning point

of World War II in 1944.

The Allies' invasion on the coast of France, codenamed Operation Overlord, remains the

largest amphibious assault in human history and marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.

Before the D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches, an estimated 50 to 55 million people had already died

from the war worldwide.

The massive toll, representing three quarters of the entire war's casualties resulted from direct combat,

systematic genocides, mass starvation, and disease.

And up to this point of the war, the Nazis had murdered between four and a half and five million Jews.

Though the cost of D-Day was great, had murdered between four and a half and five million Jews.

Though the cost of D-Day was great, the world was changed for the better on that bloody day,

and it is appropriate that we honor the sacrifices made.

Compiled with some help from AI, here is a synopsis of this historic day.

To understand why D-Day was so monumental, we must realize that Nazi Germany had controlled mainland Western Europe since 1940.

While a Soviet Union was engaged in a gargantuan struggle against the Germans on the eastern front,

Soviet leader Stalin had long been demanding that Great Britain and the United States open a second front in the West to split Germany's military strength.

Doing so on D-Day, doing so produced three immediate and significant results.

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