Editorial on D-Day was appreciated

Thank you very much for your editorial about D-Day on June 6th. I appreciated it very much. I consider myself a very patriotic person. When my dad was in his late ‘80s, I asked him about his activities in WWII because up to that time he had never spoken much about it. He was in the Navy on the Liscome Bay in the Pacific with over 850 servicemen on board. The ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine sinking the ship and killing over 600, the remaining 200 men drifting in the ocean until help came six hours later. Thankfully, my dad was one of them or I wouldn’t be here today.

My dad was a patriotic man. He always put the flag in the holder outside at our house to honor it on special days throughout the year, and he always took it down before dusk. Now this is what I proudly do, even though my flag isn’t as large as his was. One thing about Dad, he never talked about his time in the service but he kept all the memorabilia.

Thank you for reminding the community of D-Day, or it would have passed right by me! I’m going to send a copy of your editorial to each family member, lest we forget the sacrifice that was paid by our forefathers for our freedom. D-Day was certainly a vastly well-orchestrated God-led mission of bravery and life-giving sacrifice for the precious commodity of freedom! I have heard the phrase “Freedom isn’t free!” We have to work for it, fight for it, and protect it from evil forces. COSETTE SCHAAF Yuma