A Breeze before D-Day

How do you begin to write about D-Day. As I look through pages of information and photographs it brings tears to my eyes to think of these great men and how they must have felt that day with the impending doom or victory that lay ahead. It was reported that one commander told his men that only two types of people would stay on the beach--those dead and those going to die--so they'd better push forward. God given courage is how I believe these men were able to step off those boats and storm the coast line. God desires for his people to be free and we had a just fight. Again by the grace of our God in heaven America with her allies Britain, Canada and France gained a victory on the beaches of Normandy gaining a toehold in northern Europe.

I did come across a story I hadn't heard about this fateful day.

A brisk breeze left over from the English winter blew carelessly through an open window of the British War Office in London in May of 1944. With the impudence of winds everywhere, it whisked twelve copies of closely-typed orders from a desk, blowing them pell-mell into the crowd of pedestrians on the pavements below. Workers in the office, from top staff officers to

secretaries, raced down to the street after them, for these free-flying sheets were Top Secret--the instructions for the coming invasion of German 0ccupied France by thousands upon thousands of Allied assault troops. They contained most vital and secret information of World War II. Eleven copies of the missing document were recovered easily, but the twelfth

could not be found. To lose one was as bad as to lose all, for this information in German hands could wreck the whole Allied offensive. Two agonizing hours passed. Finally, a British sentry, standing duty on the opposite side of the street, turned in the missing copy, which had been handed to him by a stranger; to this day no one knows the identity of the passer-by

who held in his hand the fate of the Allied armies. The officers breathed a great sigh of relief and went back to work.

(American Heritage, D-Day Invasion)

I say again by the grace of God and His mighty hand upon us and our allies we won a victory.

"There comes a time when you've used your brains, your training, your technical skill, and the die is cast and the events are in the hands of God, and there you have to leave them."

"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth."

"The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization in built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope."

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)