It's been 79 years since soldiers from the allied nations stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Causalities from that day reached 10,300, which is nearly half of the U.S. causalities from the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
“Half of us were going to be killed. They told us that. But everybody went anyway,” Earl Howard Clements of Cottonwood Heights told the Deseret News almost a decade ago, his voice breaking as he began to cry. “They didn’t hesitate a minute, and neither did I.”
Only 167,284 of the 16 million who served in World War II were alive in 2022. With that number continuing to dwindle, it becomes more critical to remember those selfless soldiers.