D is for Dunce and for D-Day

  

Last post,

"Knock 'em dead?"

I was toast;

Few read.

Lesson learned,

Be concise;

Elsewise spurned -

Not nice...

Keep it brief,

Make it charming.

Bears bring grief

And so does warming.

In a rut

Come Monday;

My neck cut.

Please pray.

With relief

To reach high ground

I'll be real brief

Next time around.

Today is also the 64th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy Invasion.  

While Omaha Beach rightly receives most attention due to casualties, the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc achieved a feat of arms almost unparalleled in military history.

Of the 225 members of the 2d Ranger Battalion who, under fire with grenades dropping on them from above, scaled the 100 foot high cliffs between Omaha and Utah Beaches, only 50 remained fit to fight two days later.

Although the coastal guns they sought were not in the fortifications on the cliffs, the Rangers found and destroyed the guns, thus completing their mission.

High Ground.  The Greatest Generation, indeed.