Just checking back in between workfagging. Has anything D-Dayish happened yet?

Found on Telegram. I like it.

My daddy died two years ago today on D-Day. He was a hero. He swam with the sharks in freezing waters off the coast of Samar when the aircraft carrier he was serving on as an electronics engineer (radar man), the USS Gambier Bay, was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Bay during WW2. He never considered himself a victim but a survivor though he struggled with survivor's guilt all his days. July 28, 1981, President Reagan shook his hand and thanked him for his heroism - a memory only surpassed by that gray and fateful day of October 25, 1944. An oil painting of the image below hung on our living room wall as far back as I can remember. One of those men you see in the water is my daddy. The painting now hangs on my wall - lest I and my children ever forget the great sacrifice of those that fought for our freedoms. Daddy loved to hear about Q and couldn't wait to see "the plan" come to fruition.

We thought it would happen during his life. I am so sad that daddy missed seeing the freeing of our nation but am praying with all my might that today on the anniversary of his "crossing the bar" - D-Day 2021, will be the day that our nation is again freed from the same damn people that my daddy - and so many more - fought and died for and that the words spoken when the flag covering his coffin was folded and presented to my mother - "This flag is presented by a grateful nation" will once again be true. May their service and sacrifice never be in vain.