2019 Visit to Normandy
Dear Patriotic American friends:
On August 29, my wife and I embarked on the trip of a lifetime… to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing at Normandy, which marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination in Europe. It was the greatest invasion in world history with approximately 160,000 troops from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Poland, Belgium, and several other countries.
Americans landed at Omaha and Utah Beaches, the British at Gold and Sword, and the Canadians at Juno. Despite fierce resistance, the beaches were secured and the drive to Berlin to end the Nazi European Empire was on its way.
We have all heard the expression “freedom is not free,” but when one walks through the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, one gains a much better understanding of the kind of sacrifices that our fellow Americans made to pay the ultimate price for freedom.
May God bless every one of them, and may God bless America in the troubled days ahead.
Paul Caprio
Patriotic Veterans, President
Utah Beach,where Brig. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led American troops
At Utah Beach
Ste. Mere Eglise – The first town liberated by the Allies
The bomb craters at Pointe Du Hoc.
Overlooking the cliffs at Pointe Du Hoc
Flags flying at Omaha Beach
At Omaha Beach 75 years later
American Cemetery
Chapel at the American Cemetery
American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer
With General De Gaulle in Bayeux, France
