Remembering D-Day

June 6, 2026

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges, as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Today, June 6, is the anniversary of D-Day, the very costly but successful turning point of WWII 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. This massive toll—representing roughly 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 Nazi’s had murdered between 4.5 and 5 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.

Take some time today and consider the sacrifices of those who helped secure our freedom. Never forget them.

"There are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.” (Ronald Reagan)