God bless every man and woman that participated, and the millions more involved in supporting the war effort behind the lines and at home, both military and civilian! Both my parents were machinists in a shipyard during the war, but I lost relatives I never knew over there, and a few others that came home were never "right" again.

One uncle was a Ranger that was in Overlord, I wish I knew his stories of the war, but he couldn't talk about them. He buried himself in vodka after the war until he was barely alive, and that stuff pretty much made him a veggie for the rest of his days.