As the TV, newspaper, radio, and internet have duly informed me, today is 6/6/06. I’m not quite convinced that Armegeddon is on tap for today, but I did listen to some Iron Maiden in the car this morning to commemorate the event.
For me, the bigger story is that today is the 62nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in France. The CFO and I have been to Normandy and poked around the landing beaches, forts and memorials. All are interesting, but I think the most impressive D-Day site has to be Pointe Du Hoc. On D-Day U.S. Army Rangers landed at the base of the Pointe, and then assaulted the German fortification on the cliffs above. Although the Navy and Air Force had bombed the crap the out of it, the fortifications on top were still largely intact when the Rangers arrived and started to climb. The CFO and I walked over the entire site, complete with shell holes and remaining pill boxes, and peeked over the cliffs as the Germans would have on D-Day: there is no possible way that the attack should have worked. Those guys had some serious cojones, to say the least.
If you’ve never read it, you owe it to yourself to check out Reagan’s speach at Point Du Hoc on June 6, 1984. There’s a reason he was known as the Great Communicator.
