#dday76

Steven Spielberg, and Tom Hanks filming the Omaha Beach landing.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America and Canada, to all our remaining living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women, reservists and families of the entire United States Armed Forces and the Canadian Armed Forces, and to all the uniformed military and civil security services of the Allied combatants of this conflict, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, agriculture, business, tourism and the press, and to all our people of the free world:

As the whole world continues the long struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, we today mark two very important anniversaries in world history, two very important milestones in the history of humanity.

Today we honor the anniversary of the beginning of the 1832 June Rebellion, which occurred in the French capital, Paris, as a republican rebellion of students, industry workers and common people calling for France to uphold its duty as the protector of freedoms of the peoples of the world, as a result of the failed Polish November Uprising months before.

And today, we celebrate as one people the 76th year anniversary of the historic D-Day airborne landings on designated sites in Normandy in 1944. Armed with the determination to become the vanguard of the millions who are preparing to land the following morning, divisions of American, British and French paratroopers landed in sites just miles from the beaches, clearing enemy detachments and defenses to prepare for the big landings that would come later on the day after. The airborne and glider landings, all ordered by the Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower, was the opening salvo to the long awaited campaign for the liberation of western parts of Europe, running concurrently with the operations in Italy. These drops and landings were the prelude to the greater amphibious landings of millions of Allied soldiers coming from a variety of countries with a singular goal of helping to liberate a continent. Today, we honor the very few living today out of the millions who served in one of the biggest military operations in modern history, and forever honor the service and sacrifices of those whose actions on these two days in June began the final chapters of the Second World War.

Forever immortalized in books like Hugo’s Les Miserables and Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, in film, radio and television, these events many years apart are forever a part of our history and will be forever remembered as great events that have shaped humanity. The Revolt of 1832 will forever go down as one of the greatest acts of our young people fighting for freedom and independence and the events of D-Day 75 years on will always be one of the greatest military operations in the history of humankind and as one of the biggest ever mounted by the Allies in the Second World War. Together, as we honor these two great events in the history of humankind, in the midst of yet another growing crisis worldwide and even in the United States, may we forever cherish the legacy and importance of these events, keep them alive in our hearts, and ensure that the memory and legacy of such great events in history in these two days in 1832 and 1944 be honored and remembered today and for generations to come!

John Ramos-Henderson

Makati City, PH 

Je répète: Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.

African American soldiers surround a farmhouse near Omaha Beach as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper holding up their advance.

June 10, 1944

Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America and Canada, to all our remaining living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women, reservists and families of the entire United States Armed Forces and the Canadian Armed Forces, and to all the uniformed military and civil security services of the Allied combatants of this conflict, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, agriculture, business, tourism and the press, and to all our people of the free world:

Today, as our we mark as one people two great anniversaries of great importance.

First, we honor the 138th anniversary since the defeat of the June Rebellion of 1832, wherein hundreds of people involved were killed by gunfire as they fought against the French Army and the National Guard. Many of the fallen were students and workers, as well as republicans, who agitated for France to once more take the cause of freedom to the peoples of Europe.

And today, we mark 76 years since the date of one of the biggest ever amphibious landings in military history. 76 years ago, the seaborne landing phrase of D-Day occurred in the five marked beaches in occupied Normandy in France, wherein hours after airborne landings within miles of the beaches began to clear German resistance and opened the door to the beginning of the liberation of western parts of Europe from the English Channel coast while fellow servicemen were fighting in Italy’s south and center and the Soviet Armed Forces, together with the Polish People’s Army and the Czechoslovak Armed Forces in the East were fighting in Eastern Europe alongside the Yugoslav partisan movement millions of army personnel from many nations of the Allied forces, escorted by a multinational naval force and aviation, all under the orders of General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, landed in these beaches signaling the start of the final chapters of the war in Western and Central Europe. The mass landings that began on this day and stretched into the following days was only the beginning of the long road to liberation for millions of people in western and central parts of Europe, who for years had suffered long under the cruel hands of Nazi Germany and its allies.

Only hundreds remain of the millions who entered France via sea and air to begin the final stages of the war in Western Europe, as well as of the veterans of the Italian campaigns as well. Their memory as well as of their deceased comrades in arms and the fallen of this operation will remain forever engraved in our hearts and therefore we owe to teach our children, the youth, and future generations of the victory won by the sacrifices of men and women of the Allied Nations in the Second World War and the many operations, including D-Day, that led to the defeat of the Axis Powers in 1945. It is thus our duty and obligation to forever honor and remember the Greatest Generation – these millions of men and women of the armed forces and civil security services and home front workers who through their sacrifices in all fields of endeavor and in the defense of our freedom and independence, won the war and helped defeat international fascism in Europe, Northern Africa and the Asia-Pacific exactly 75 years ago. With just over two months to go before the diamond jubilee of its conclusion, in the midst of the current crisises of this world let us, empowered by their legacy, continue to work onwards to the building of a better world.

These two events, forever honored in books, radio, film, television, paintings, monuments, poems and other forms of act, remembered year after year, are now a part of our modern culture and part of our history and these events are for all of us an inspiration to forever striving to preserve freedom and independence in our world and build on a brighter and hopeful future for our planet and all of humanity. As we forever honor and commemorate such historic moments of our times, let us, with the spirits of this great days with us and in our memories, forge onwards on our long road to a future prosperous, progressive, green free and independent, and a world that is truly world defending.

And to the people of Sweden, as we send National Day greetings to all of you, we hope that, as well all move together onwards an uncertain but bright future the people of Sweden and her Armed Forces , together, will ensure that it will forever be independent, prosperous and free for generations to come.

LONG LIVE THE 187TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1832 JUNE REBELLION!

LONG LIVE THE 75TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE D-DAY OFFENSIVE OF 1944!

ETERNAL GLORY TO ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE OF OUR WORLD!

ETERNAL GLORY TO ALL THOSE WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE FORCES OF FASCISM AND LIBERATED THE WORLD FROM THE THREATS AND EVIL ACTIONS OF THE AXIS POWERS!

GLORY TO THE VICTORIOUS PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, SWEDEN AND THEIR UNIFORMED SERVICES!

GLORY TO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA AND SWEDEN, TOGETHER THE DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND GUARANTEE OF A FUTURE WORTHY OF OUR GENERATIONS TO COME!

And in honor of the 76th year anniversary of the great baptism of fire of the 101st Airborne Division, and to the entire HBO War Fandom who for all time will always remember this very moment in history as depicted in the 2nd episode of the award winning 2001 HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers”:

LONG LIVE EASY COMPANY, 2ND BATTALION, 506TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT, 3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (AIR ASSAULT), XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY!

CURRAHEE! AIR ASSAULT! ARMY STRONG! HOOOAH!!

2300h, June 6, 2020, the 244th year of the United States of America, the 245th year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 126th of the International Olympic Committee, the 124th of the Olympic Games, the 102nd since the conclusion of the First World War, the 81st of the beginning of the Second World War in Europe, the 79th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 75th since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 73rd of the United States Armed Forces and the 53rd of the modern Canadian Armed Forces.

Semper Fortis A Mari Usque A Mare

John Ramos-Henderson

Makati City, Philippines

Grandson of Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.)