Thanks CC and everyone for remembering. Thanks to all that Tom Brokaw refers to so aptly as "The Greatest Generation." I had an uncle in the 82nd Airborne that made a jump into Normandy that night and miraculously lived to spend more than 30 years in the 82nd. My Dad was a B17 mechanic in the Army Air Corps. All of these people, men and women, did whatever it took to save the free world. They did it with such dignity and then the lucky ones came home and quietly became our fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, grandfathers and grandmothers, friends and neighbors. God bless them all.

Ed Pirie
West Topsham, Vermont