Today's News: Lest We Forget

Follow this tweet thread for some sad photos of the brave Canadian boys who lost their lives fighting in D-Day 78 years ago. They were all so young:

@CAFinUS has a remarkable, heartbreaking series today in recognition of the D-Day anniversary and the sacrifice of so many Canadians. https://t.co/agUZelry77

— Laura Dawson (@DawsonCanada) June 6, 2022

Wounded Warriors Canada
78 years ago today some 14,000 Canadians secured Juno Beach as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Total Allied casualties on D-Day reached more than 10,000, including 1,074 Canadians. We will remember them. pic.twitter.com/bMNX3EOaL4

— WithoutMalice🍁 (@WithForethought) June 6, 2022

3090 Indigenous soldiers served Canada in WW2, NOT including Inuit, Metis and non-status First Nations. On D-Day 33 of those soldier gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy alongside over 300 other Canadians.#DDay #IndigenousHistoryMonth

— Brampton Excelsiors Lacrosse Club (@BELacrosse) June 6, 2022

The Canadians. #DDay pic.twitter.com/OjxlxfKhKE

— Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸 (@CAFinUS) June 4, 2022

D-Day Remembered.
Utah. Omaha. Gold. Juno. Sword.
Though the last to land, and despite heavy casualties initially, the Canadians were the first to break through German defenses. #DDay #LestWeForget pic.twitter.com/jDKlJOi0XF

— Dave Langille (@cdnusboy) June 6, 2022

One last D-Day post, remembering Canada's 3rd Division landing at Juno Beach. #WeWillRememberThem pic.twitter.com/CW2wSMwc2q

— Dave Langille (@cdnusboy) June 7, 2022

Some D-Day anecdotes:

Nearly forgot that it's the anniversary of D-Day today. My grandfather landed on Sword Beach that day, with the English. (Like many he was loaned to the English by Canada.) Incredible that it was 78 years ago. 2 days after that he sent this card home to my grandmother pic.twitter.com/Z2a5xzRm9O

— Lindsay Brown (@Lidsville) June 7, 2022

James Doohan was born in Canada. The Scottish accent was fake, the heroics real. On Star Trek “Scotty” saved the Enterprise several times, but on D-Day he was part of saving Europe from the fucking Nazis. He landed on Juno Beach & killed 2 German snipers.https://t.co/kqvo744e6w

— James Fell (@BodyForWife) June 6, 2022

Stamp of the day (part 2): Today, June 6th 2022, is the anniversary of start of D-Day Invasion:
From US, Britain, Canada, and France pic.twitter.com/uzSfR5OBRw

— Danesh Forouhari (@dforouhari) June 7, 2022

Rifleman R.A. Marshall, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, pointing out a hole in his helmet made by a German sniper's bullet on D-Day. Bretteville-Orgueilleuse, France, 20 June 1944.
Photographer: Dubervill, Lieut. Frank L.
LAC Item # 2028 pic.twitter.com/9eGmdUiz5u

— Thomas J. Moore (@Medical_Int) June 3, 2022

On this day 78 years ago, 156,000 soldiers landed in Normandy to liberate France during WWII.

Every year, French soldiers take sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones to give the letters a gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there. pic.twitter.com/gE03p3yUlM

— Goodable (@Goodable) June 6, 2022

Here's a fascinating map -- it was just 11 months from D-Day to Victory in Europe Day:

D-Day to VE-day in 10 seconds.

USA - Blue
UK - Orange
Canada - Red
Germany - Black

The D-Day operation of 6th June 1944 brought together the land, air and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest seaborne invasion in history. pic.twitter.com/6OmI9D0zOY

— Bobbie☀️ (@bo66ie29) June 6, 2022

And now some side notes: 

As I was searching for Canadian D-Day tweets, I kept tripping over irrelevant tweets that used D-Day to bash Trudeau - apparently some people carefully searched through all Trudeau tweets to find whether he had paid sufficient tribute to D-Day and then they concluded that he hadn't and was therefore History's Greatest Monster - it was obsessive and weird. 

So I appreciated this reaction to another Trudeau-bashing story from the National Post:

Nah. I'm waiting for 'National Post's weird obsession with trashing PM Trudeau'.

— Mike Morris (@1MikeMorris) June 6, 2022

Speaking of monsters...

Kyle Rittenhouse: “I’m going to Texas A&M!”

Texas A&M: “Lol nope.”

Kyle Rittenhouse: “Just kidding, I meant I’m going to Blinn College!”

Blinn College: “Says who?”

— Gabe Sanchez  (@iamgabesanchez) June 6, 2022

Turns out murdering two people and getting away with it is not the extracurricular activities colleges are looking for.

— Covie (@covie_93) June 6, 2022

More crazy stuff:

why don’t we just ask the FOUNDING FATHERS if im allowed to taste this delicious little packet of silica gel

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) June 5, 2022

this tweet has reached insane conservative twitter and to my absolute delight it turns out they are actually mad at pizza hut for some other, different stupid reason. amazing stuff. i just picked a brand at random when i wrote this but feel free to keep proving the point

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) June 6, 2022

And we all need our own Hundred Acre Wood, don't we:

pic.twitter.com/kxBADuoqhj

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) June 7, 2022