This is not a D-Day commemorative thread.

Memorial day commemorates only those who have died in battle from any of our wars. It is not about living veterans, nor those currently serving. There are other days for that.

So that does somehow make it thread for preaching your religion?

Lets not fight there, Steve, I think August just had another intention for this thread , but underestimated that the close temporal vicinity to D-Day Remembrance might interfere in so far that some people might not see the difference, and so it drifted towards D-Day remembrance. At least thats how I understand him - I was not fully aware of that it were two different events, too.

Well I wasn't addressing religion, just clarifying the actual topic of this thread, but since you ask; It was a single short post and a whole lot easier to ignore than your lecture about it.

You're right about the purpose of Memorial Day. I was thrown off by the two D-Day pictures. That's my fault.