I Was Born In 1944

I was born 3 months after D' Day on September 7th.  

I  first learned about the Invasion of Normandy, June 6th, 1944 ten years after the fact while a cadet at the Glenwood School for Boys in Glenwood, Illinois, a military school for unwanted boys sponsored by the 5th Army.

I recall on Saturdays all the boys would go to some theater of sort (which may have only been a room in the school building) and watching news reel clips about aspects of the War.  It was there that I first heard the term, D' Day.

I can't say I have heard much about any aspect of our Nation's War's until a commemoration comes around honoring the 50th or 60th or 70th date of its event.  Were the men and women here and abroad any less deserving of our honor on the 69th year then the 70th year.