Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 06, 2018

Yeah, I was just thinking about this yesterday. Thinking I oughta put something in to watch today as a remembrance of Normandy.

This is a much later strip than they’ve published recently, isn’t it?

That’s nice, but we already have Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day.

This was also dealt with in “What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?”

I will monitor the major news outlets today to see how many of them mention this day in history. It won’t be many – if any – of them, I fear.

Let us also always remember that we were not there alone. We were part of the Allies.

As always, two thumbs way, way up.

Thank you men & women who served then and now. A 21 gun salute!

ahmen

(raises a root beer)

The Greatest Generation…

Here’s a link to the strip that would have been run today:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1971/06/09

This is a great D-Day story that i found recently.

https://youtu.be/mpAF3ulwHXI

When I was a kid, if the school year ran into June, we’d get this day off. Many of us had parents in the military.

All gave some. Some gave all. God Bless Our Military and Veterans. You sacrifice and have sacrificed so much for us.

I was on a street car in Chicago and heard people taking about the invasion. About 7 AM as I remember.

A date that will never be forgotten.

Never forget-thanks to all that were there because we may not have been here today.

I always like the way Charles Schultz honored the vets -

FYI, this strip originally ran on June 6, 1996.

My grandfather was the company clerk in his unit when they were part of the second wave to storm the beach at Normandy. Years later (and only when directly asked about it) he talked about wading onto the beach, bullets flying all around, hip-deep in water, and carrying the company’s typewriter over his head to keep it dry as he walked ashore. He never got hit, but he did have to pull several bullets out of the typewriter once things settled down.

It would be interesting to know the ages of those who have commented. Many of us were not born until after D-Day. I’m 72, so among the not-yet-born, but it was vivid recent history as I was growing up. Thanks to COREYM5 for finding the original publication date of this strip.

I had the honor of visiting Normandy in early January 2014, plans for the 70th anniversary celebration were just underway. It was an overcast, rather gloomy morning when our tour group reached Omaha Beach. The horizon reminded me of the scene from the bunker in The Longest Day moments before the troopships appear out of the fog.I also thought of a pre-teen girl living in occupied France on 6/6/44 (12 years before she met and married my uncle, but that’s another story…) My aunt had cousins and two uncles as part of the French Resistance that were caught, tortured, and executed by the Nazis. Yes. I remember them.

“To remember” indeed.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place: and in the sky

The larks still bravely singing fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead: Short days ago,

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved: and now we lie

In Flanders fields!

Take up our quarrel with the foe

To you, from failing hands, we throw

The torch: be yours to hold it high

If ye break faith with us who die,

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

❤️

Thank you for REMEBERING!!!!

My father was a WWII pilot of German ancestry (as so, so many other Americans were, like Ike) dropping bombs on his kinfolk. This did not bode well psychologically for him (or many other Americans – no matter how noble or just the cause). War is hell…

God Bless D-Day! my uncle, like many gave his life for this day!

Disappointed in the editors that this was only ranked # 5 for the day.

“TO REMEMBER”—It is a tragedy that more men and women in France remember and honor our soldiers for their bravery and their sacrifices than Americans do. Charles Schulz knew the meaning of gratitude and sacrifice, and everybody in this country owes our servicemen the honor of being remembered and being thanked. The historical amnesia that afflicts our people makes us a nation suffering with a kind of collective Alzheimer’s Disease, and that is indeed tragic. A heartfelt THANK YOU to all our servicemen and women, past and present, on this seventy-fourth anniversary of D-DAY.

This is the FIFTH YEAR in a row this 1996 D-Day related strip has been run on a June 6 day! 1971 strips resume tomorrow anyway.

Remember D-Day, and never forget. Yes, I’m all on board with that. But why don’t we also remember October 20th, 1944: the landing on Leyte that started the liberation of the Phillipines?

The sun will rise the sun will set a Soldier Death we never Forget

You need to watch Band of Brother’s to get a clue for starters. And Google D Day to inform yourself before you make such uninformed comments.

Let’s see today’s strip, please.

Somehow, I am reminded of The Bard, and the Saint Crispin’s eve speech from HENRY V. “…we few, we happy few…”