Damnit, I'm not crying. Y'all are crying. France, the U.S., Ukraine, Canada, Britain, all those other countries all represented. Please, please, please Lord...let this last large gathering of the Allied Expeditionary Force veterans be a reminder of what we need to preserve and not revert back to our old bullshit. I don't want to see just 9 of 'em in another 5 years looking around at us thinking "How'd you guys fuck this up this much?"
It is now 0100hrs in Normandy. The Higgins' will continue to ferry reinforcements, but once they can see clearly in the night sky a very curious continued lack of Luftwaffe presence, the LCT boats will really start to move artillery and armor to the landing zones under cover of night as the paths are cleared. As the old saying goes, "A Panzer is worth 4 Shermans, but the Americans had 5." Well, it is at this hour on 7 June, that the 5th ones start to arrive. 20% of the City of Caen is on fire however. For most of the Allied troops and airmen, this will be their second night in a row without sleep. Village however, after village, continue to be liberated on the way to the first big one-Bayeux.