80 years ago a day that started the end

As I live in one of the most important towns that contributed to D day I know all to well.
Lest we forget....

My mother's father was a tail gunner (amongst other roles) in the RAF during the war, he went on to fly vampires. My mum's brother put together all his career stuff, digitised it which we have a copy and sent it to the imperial war museum.

My great great uncle was a prominent person in Jersey and managed to get off the island (to the annoyance of the islanders) just before the Germans landed but helped them through secret communications via the resistance.

My dad had 4 brothers who was in diffrent parts the world fighting
1 in burma got captured by japs and tortured an starved skin and bone told by the British red Cross.. when family met him at the train station they walked past him as he was so skinny and lost a lot hight he never regained the weight or hight .

2 in Africa/ Egypt one was killed in sidi barrani Egypt he was a royal engineer minesweeper he was killed by land mine trap .the front his body was full small holes but the back of him was all blown away.his best friend told his mum and dad what happend his mum woke up the night he died and told her husband somthing happend to Adam. Cupl days later they got the telegram says killed in action .
Other one survived sent letters.home saying he's following Adam as they was not alowed to say where they was so they know he was in Egypt.

1 in Italy they knew where he was cos he got shot twice in the bum
Again by red Cross. He was a MG on top of the trains .he got shot twice two diffrent times.
My dad was the youngest so he was in reserved occupation he was a boilermaker down the pits .and air raid warden at night .
He was in the black watch reserves .

I watched saving pvt ryan and I had it on surround sound an turned up and when they hit the beach wow it's one of the best sounds gunfire bombs without being there .an it excited yea fantastic but then it went quite to where ryan body floting in the sea an all dead fish I started it again an I thought about being there an hearing this 1000% louder feeling the bomb blasts bullets flying past I really don't think I could have done it standing on that landing craft all the noise fear the smell must been horrendous.

When this movie 1st played in the cinema I read that they invited loads of WW2 and other veterans to special screening and they said they had to stop the film almost near the end beach part as there was veterans crying some had to.leave others soiled themselves and others said it was being back there all them years ago quite a few stay till the end and said it was fantastic others said why do you need that amount of realism it was quite a disaster not what hanks spelburgers wanted .as they used real WW2 guns and fired in to cow flesh for the realism .

So I don't think I could ever do what they did back then . Not just the military the civilians who knew if they helped allies there family would get it . Even german guards not everyone wanted to shoot ppl put them in camps but in a time where if you looked at somone wrong they shoot you or if they said you said anything against Hitler stuff like that the Gestapo would be kicking your doors in . It's a terrible thing they really was made of somthing different back then .