This blog says "Thank You"

Seventy years ago this weekend past, over 150,000 Allied soldiers left coastal towns and cities across Southern England, bound for Normandy, France.  Their journey was one of liberation, to free the world from the tyranny of fascism, and to put democracy back on the European continent.  For many soldiers, however, this would come at enormous personal sacrifice and, in the hours that followed departure, thousands would die on the beaches code named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.  They were men of a dozen different nations, many from the other side of the world, united through a belief in the principle of freedom for all men. Seventy years later on Torquay Seafront, where many thousands of men in the American 4th Infantry Division departed for Utah Beach, we gathered to thank them.

Torquay remembers

This blog wishes to thank the servicemen of all nations who fought for our freedom and our future.  Though many never made it back, we shall not forget their sacrifice, nor will our gratitude diminish through the years.