It's the 69th anniversary of D-Day, being marked in different ways. Here is a picture gallery. Then, 'the stars-and-stripes [were] being raised in a quiet ceremony at the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach'.
James Gabaree, who landed at Omaha Beach with the 5th Ranger Battalion, says: 'We made a difference... There is a lot of cynicism around today. I hope people remember that there were people like me and all the Rangers that I worked with, those of us who really believed in democracy.'
Nine years ago, I asked my dad where he'd been on D-Day and this is what he remembered.
On the other hand, at Comment is Free today you may, if you so choose, read about how Rosie the Riveter, 'representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II', was really, according to the writer's father, a symbol of US imperialism and capitalist propaganda - 'a motivational picture explicitly designed to encourage female munitions workers to pump out weapons harder'. There's no reflection from the writer herself about what other powers than the US were involved in World War II and whether they were imperialist, or indeed what they were and what that war might have been about. So I wouldn't bother if I were you. (Thanks: RB / MK.)