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D-day plus 29,200
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Yes, they're commemorating the 80th anniversary today:
Biden in France for 80th anniversary of D-Day
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-heads-france-d-day-anniversary-democracy-speech-2024-06-04/ A number of world leaders have gathered to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings which occurred on June 6, 1944. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will be there to meet with...
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Indeed. From what I've read, it was pretty rough. Omaha Beach was particularly bad, although Utah Beach was a bit easier. Apart from everything else, it was a brilliant deception, since Hitler was convinced that the Allies would attack at Calais, not at Normandy. That delayed the German response and allowed the Allies time to firmly establish a beachhead. Weather was also a factor, as they had been expecting weeks of rain - which caused them to postpone the original invasion date of June 5. But there was a brief window, almost a freak occurrence, where the weather would be good enough to make the crossing.
If the goal is a just and humane world, "the slow, hard slog" to surmount xenophobia and indifference continues.
The Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan is supposed to have been pretty accurate.
Breaking Down the Omaha Beach Scene in Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan'
It's loud, it's long, and it depicts the horror of war in ways we never thought would hit the big screen.
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That is interesting, that a person who’s 80, has only lived 29,200 days!
Saying “80 years old”, sounds so much longer than “29,200 days”.
To me.
So if someone lives to be 100, they’ve only lived 36,500 days.
That just doesn’t seem that long.
The Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan is supposed to have been pretty accurate.
Breaking Down the Omaha Beach Scene in Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan'
It's loud, it's long, and it depicts the horror of war in ways we never thought would hit the big screen.
I seem to recall they used "shaky cam" during that scene. I'm not a fan of shaky cam. In a war or battle scene, they should use stable aerial shots, with maybe a small inset for a map showing where the Allied and German positions were, where the ships were for the offshore bombardment, air cover, etc.
Large stadiums have more seats in them than a person has days in their lifespan
I have always found that very humbling