82 Years Ago Today: 'Many of Them Boys, Who Never Came Home'

82 years ago nearly all of the men on the first few boats that landed on the beach in Normandy were dead before days end.
Sit here with that for a while.
Look at them.
Really look at them.
Look into their eyes.
Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s… pic.twitter.com/D1NOgoSbCu

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) June 6, 2026

Look into their eyes. 

Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s sweetheart someone’s father. 

They never came home. 

And every privilege, every convenience, every freedom and every little thing that you want to bitch about you have because of them and they paid the ultimate price for you to have those freedoms.