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Well, damn, I knew there was something significant about today’s date and was thinking, thank goodness we didn’t do this a couple of years ago (on 6/6/6), ‘coz that really would have been a beastly, devil of a day.
Finally, the penny dropped when Rockin’ Canarias blog reminded me that, it was on the 6th June 1944 that the allied troops had disembarked in Normandy. Duh!
So, what will I be doing 64 years later on 6th June 2008?
(* I was not alive 64 years earlier, I would underline)
As you read this, I’ll be “storming” Britain!
… along with two fat tabbies, who have to be checked in at 12:20 mid-day and, who will not clear the other end until 2 hours after our ETA of 19:45 hours. Add a couple of hours travel to and from the airports at both ends and you just could not find anything more apt than the description of The Longest Day …
And, Britain has no idea what’s about to hit it, does it? 
The Longest Day, Normandy Landings, Invasion of Normandy, D-Day
* Somebody who was alive 64 years ago, was my father, who went off on a “boys own adventure” trip to Northern France, shortly after the D-Day landings. I will get around to publishing his Forbidden Diary one day. Maybe, in the UK, I’ll be able to do some related research.
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