Greeting Loyal Airmen, today's Flight Log will be short.  It really doesn't need a whole lot of words.  We just need to never forget this date in history.  On June 6, 1944, half the world was under the heel of monster whose dreams of global conquest seemed unstoppable.  Untold millions upon millions of people had been killed or enslaved throughout Europe and Asia.  This was clearly the darkest night in human history.

Then, on that morning, thousands of boats crossed the English Channel in the greatest invasion ever launched by free men.  From them emerged Americans, Englishmen, Canadians and their allies from other nations, all united with one goal, to storm those beaches of Normandy and liberate their fellow men from the grip of tyranny: to save the world.

Back in America, their Commander in Chief, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on the radio and said this of them, as so many died on those sands, “They fight not for the lust of combat.  They fight to end conquest.  They fight to liberate…”

And so they did.  Today we remember “the greatest generation” and their sacrifices with grateful hearts.

And the lesson they taught us with their sacrifices.  Home, country, loved ones.  What would you fight and die for today?  The Air Chief's answer is and always will be …all of the above.

Ron – Over & Out!