{"id":1563,"date":"2011-06-06T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2011-06-06T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:18:58","slug":"d-day-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/06\/d-day-the\/","title":{"rendered":"D-day: The 67th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None of us in America should forget D-day, today <strong>67th anniversary<\/strong> of the opening of the Second Front against Hitler in WWII. \u00c2\u00a0The national archives has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/education\/lessons\/d-day-message\/\">excellent page<\/a> with a election of documents and photographs related to that day. \u00c2\u00a0Her are some photos that will hopefully provoke some refection on the sacrifices of our grandfathers and what has been characterized as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_Greatest_Generation.html?id=_uQfjgIplokC\">The Greatest Generation<\/a>.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0And a link to the text of an excellent speech by Ronald Reagan on the 40th Anniversary:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/06\/06\/the_boys_of_pointe_du_hoc_96877.html\">The Boys of Pointe du Hoc<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Let us never forget our men and women in uniform.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1564\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/landing-in-france.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1564\" title=\"landing-in-france\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/landing-in-france-300x241.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/landing-in-france-300x241.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/landing-in-france.gif 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landing on D-Day, June 6th, 1944<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1565\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dday6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1565\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1565\" title=\"dday6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dday6-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dday6-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dday6.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treating the wounded on Omaha Beach<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of us in America should forget D-day, today 67th anniversary of the opening of the Second Front against Hitler in WWII. \u00c2\u00a0The national archives has an excellent page with a election of documents and photographs related to that day&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/06\/d-day-the\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1225],"tags":[262,261,73],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern-global-conflict","tag-anniversary","tag-d-day","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}