Memorial Day

 This is a picture of the cemetery at Colleville sur Mer, in Normandy, where a number of soldiers from the 2nd Ranger Battalion are buried. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 225 Rangers went ashore at Pointe du Hoc, climbed 100-foot cliffs in the face of relentless German fire and took the gun emplacements at the top of the cliffs, sparing the landings on Omaha Beach from flanking fire. More than half were killed or wounded in the assault that day, yet they held the ground they took against counterattacks. Two days after the landing, only 90 men could still bear arms. And you think being a contract attorney is tough? Visit a cemetery this weekend to give your thanks to those who gave everything, or quit reading this blog, 'cause I got no use for you.