Americans offloading from a troop carrier into the sea off Omaha beach on June 6th 1944, sixty-five years ago.
I wasn't at the anniversary ceremony in Arromanches, but like a lot of other people watched it on the TV from the comfort of my lounge. Old soldiers, sailors and airmen braving the rain and thinking about their comrades who didn't make it back home.
Many people have said this will be the last big ceremony of it's kind, but I doubt that. I don't think we can afford to forget the appalling suffering and extraordinary courage of those who fought in WWII.

Here is a quote from an interview with an old soldier in The Telegraph......

And what was it like, really, 65 years ago?

"What was it like? If you were not there you will never know. Go to a cemetery and look at every cross and think of each one as a son or a husband or a father of children and count them, and then you might know a little."