D-Day Remembered Early to Accommodate President Trump

Derek Phillips
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2 min readJun 5, 2019
The event was attended by representatives of all countries that participated in the operation including Germany, which, well, yeah, I guess they participated.

Those looking to honor and celebrate the brave men who stormed the beaches of Normandy to free Europe from Nazi occupation on June 6th 1944 found themselves honoring and celebrating a day early this year as an impromptu ceremony to commemorate the event fit nicely into President Trump’s trip to Great Britain, sandwiched somewhere between the 3AM Twitter roast of a tired old lounge singer and whatever despicable thing he is going to do next.

Sources confirm that the important event has required a great deal of mental energy from “your great president.”

D-Day, or Operation Overlord, of course, was the American-led offensive that gave the Allies a foothold on the European continent and marked the beginning of the end for Nazism as a state-sponsored political ideology. Planners of the invasion knew the price of assaulting heavily fortified terrain, largely without heavy armor and with minimal air and naval support, would be high. Over two million soldiers took part in the operation and casualty rates among several divisions reached as high as 75%. Because of the heroism these men showed at the Battle of Normandy, D-Day is remembered as a critical moment in the history of liberalism in which 209,000 Allied soldiers laid down their lives so that free people will never again have to surrender their liberty to the vain pursuits of oppressive leaders and power hungry tyrants.

One anonymous president has said of the battle, “there were many fine people on both sides.”

Historians agree that this is not an appropriate time to commemorate this history.

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Derek Phillips
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