D-Day 75

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Code named Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

I'm hoping by now that whoever is reading this post will know about D-Day and my deep interest in World War 2. 
If you don't know about D-Day then please do some research. After all most of us owe our freedom to these brave people and all those who fought in the War. 

I have received a lot of comments lately on insta and social media where has my World War 2 passion gone? Why am I not posting about it lately? Is my whole focus just in Korea? No! I don't need to post about something to let anyone know what I'm thinking. But I can tell you for sure my interest for WW2 has gone nowhere. I write about it on my private writing, I read about it almost daily and learn new things daily. So yes, I'm still passionate about it. And this is also the reason why I decided to make this post, and why it's rather sad that I won"t be able to go to Normandy in this special anniversary. But due to a busy spell at work I'm unable to go. 

Anyway... I still can't believe it's been 5 years since I was in Normandy celebrating DDay 70. I still remember meeting all those amazing people; those brave heroes. It was a humbling yet surreal experience, like no other. They were not interested in letting me know what they did during the War but they wanted to know about me, why I was there, what I did, what my family did, and if we were having a good time in France. The whole trip, the whole experience still brings tears to my eyes. Walking thru the American and German cemeteries still brings that emotional time. Even tough I didn't know any of those brave soldiers, it was still emotional to see the crosses, to walk thru them and to realised I stood there, right where they were standing all those decades ago. 

So this post is dedicated to them, because We will not forget...


Alicia.


Sources Wiki, and HIstory extra on Instagram, also LeHoldy on Instagram. 

The images down below are my own, from our last trip to Normandy. Last Image is a very personal favorite of mine, the tribute to Major Dick Winters.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...