[Llarry]

80 years ago today, the Allies landed in Normandy and that began the beginning of the end for the Nazis in the West. Of course the Soviet Union was also making great inroads in the East.

Pet peeve on the U.S. media: "80 years ago the United States invaded Normandy and started the process of saving the world." Uh, nope -- the USA was in some ways the "arsenal of democracy" during the war, but the combat effort was multinational. The USA did its part, but so did the Commonwealth nations, the Free French, etc.

And -- at the risk of redundancy -- I would remind everyone again that at the very same time that the gargantuan Allied effort was made at Normandy, there was a huge invasion fleet (this one almost exclusively U.S.) that landed in the Japanese-held Marianas Islands in the Pacific.

The world had never seen the likes of this before, and I think it is unlikely that the U.S. or any other country could replicate the feat in the future.