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    The document describes the events of D-Day on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 from the perspective of a survivor. Over 2,200 soldiers were killed or wounded when they stormed the beach, facing high cliffs, pounding waves, and heavy German defenses. The survivor describes the scene as desolate with dead bodies piled everywhere and signs of carnage and destruction all around. While they went to war with hearts of glory, the horrific death taught bitter lessons that could not be learned through patriotism alone.

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    The document describes the events of D-Day on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 from the perspective of a survivor. Over 2,200 soldiers were killed or wounded when they stormed the beach, facing high cliffs, pounding waves, and heavy German defenses. The survivor describes the scene as desolate with dead bodies piled everywhere and signs of carnage and destruction all around. While they went to war with hearts of glory, the horrific death taught bitter lessons that could not be learned through patriotism alone.

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    Omaha Beach: D-Day

    “On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allies stage the largest

    human invasion in history on the beaches of Normandy. The human

    cost is enormous, and for the Germans it is the beginning of the end.”

    --

    The World at War

    “We are the dead.” Truly, it reverberates through and through

    and strikes a chord deep within.

    It is twilight and dusk has fallen. Surely today, June 6, 1944, will

    live on forever in our haunted memories. What death, what carnage to

    be seen; the report has just come in, two thousand two hundred dead

    and wounded and only on our section of beach code-named Omaha.

    Greetings, I am Dan Sutherland of the U.S. First Engineer Combat

    Battalion, the first wave of demolition squads to land at zero hour. Of

    all my comrades, with whom I have joked together, eaten together,

    lived together, I am the lone survivor.

    Softly, a salt breeze steals upon the desolate beach of high cliffs

    and pounding waves, of dead bodies piled high like so many logs. No

    matter where my gaze falls, there are signs of carnage and

    destruction, broken fortresses, blasted earth, and mangled bodies.

    From the deepest core of my being, a sense of bitter nausea swells and
    surges. What matter that we went to the war with hearts of glory?

    Death has taught us lessons no amount of fervent patriotism ever can.

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