(Published, October 6, 2012.)
Letters to the Editor
The Post & Courier
Charleston SC
Dear Sirs:
The vacation gift Operation R&R extends to active duty military families means much more to me this week. I just returned from a trip to France where I visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer near Omaha Beach.
The Post & Courier
Charleston SC
Dear Sirs:
The vacation gift Operation R&R extends to active duty military families means much more to me this week. I just returned from a trip to France where I visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer near Omaha Beach.
Dedicated in July 1956, the cemetery is the resting place for
9,387 American servicemen and women who gave their lives on D-Day or
shortly thereafter. It is impossible to look out over the headstones,
both Latin crosses and Stars of David, without feeling love and
admiration for those young people who gave so much for all of us.
I am
not ashamed to admit that as I stood silent and said a prayer tears came
to my eyes thinking about what life would have been for these fallen
warriors.
The volunteers, merchants and home owners who contribute to Operation
R&R are doing a good and well-deserved thing for this generation of
servicemen and servicewomen who have been deployed in the past 12 months, are
married and still on active duty.
The local chapter of Operation R&R can be supported by going to www.charleston.operationrandr.
