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Monday Overnight Open Thread (6/6/22) D-Day Remembered Edition �
June 06, 2022
D-Day Cafe

This account, Project '44, features letters and accounts from the men of Normandy, with some illustrative video to accompany their words. I believe their letters are read by actors, because the audio quality is sometimes very high, and sometimes they sound like actors. But the accounts are real.
Pandamonium!
Older dog is very skeptical of new puppy, but the puppy gradually wears him down.
Are you a gray bush?
Who's in charge here?
ICYMI, this dog is floofy and huge.
The rabbit gods are kind today.
Playing catch-the-feather-on-the-stick with a cat. Except it's a lion. Really cool.
Some kind of raptor -- the account says it's a vulture; I don't know myself, and you know how bad I am at Bird Identification -- buzzes a paraglider and then decides, Hey, I think I'll just take a rest and ride your glider for a while if you don't mind. Another very gool one.
Pellican trying to eat a capybara. (He fails.)
Hero saves kid.
As you probably know, Biden failed to make any observance of D-Day for the second straight year in a row.
Here are some real presidents who did think it was worth commemorating: