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Thank you Brian, Harry.
As I watch the commemorations on Tv I have in front of me a copy of Sandford's memories that I have posted on the 'net' - one paragraph sums up the horror of it all...
"... We stormed up the beach and noticed several dead British soldiers at the water's edge, so still - and I thought someone's sons... we got to the brow of the beach, to our left was higher ground and the biggest Union Jack I had ever seen flying in the gentle breeze... I remember a cornfield on our right - unharvested, a few yards in was the gruesome sight of a dead young German soldier his head facing seaward, his face sunburnt from the Normandy sun he had enjoyed a few days earlier...I thought another young man the same as me doing what he was told to do, it was bloody awful, all I wanted to do was be home in Dover with my mother and father, brother and four sisters in our home in Limekiln Street..."
And Brian, indeed whilst Normandy is at the centre of today's commemorations, we must also remember the suffering, gallantry and professionalism of the hundred's fighting in other campaigns.