I’m the retired neurologist who wears bow ties and I intend to buy your upcoming book. My father and 12 other enlisted Army men drew the D-Day invasion maps while stationed in England before “going over.” He worked as a civilian cartographer with the Army Map Service in Georgetown,DC for 30+ years. This high school graduate worked on the 50 foot tall moon map for training for the manned lunar landing, the Tomahawk cruise missile in early 70s, which after he died was used in 1991 in the First Gulf War.
Can you imagine how impossible it would be to keep a military secret in today’s world when my father’s generation was able to pretend that the D-Day invasion was going to occur at Calais, not Normandy, because of the former’s proximity to England? Their maps would’ve been useless.
"D-Day also happens to be the day I mark my liberation from the forces of illiberalism"
Maybe Dunkirk is a more appropriate comparison: a strategic retreat in the face of overwhelming forces so as to regroup and carry on the struggle for liberty with renewed force?
Most would, and do, keep quiet for the sake of their careers. We're indebted to you, Mr Shapiro.
I’m the retired neurologist who wears bow ties and I intend to buy your upcoming book. My father and 12 other enlisted Army men drew the D-Day invasion maps while stationed in England before “going over.” He worked as a civilian cartographer with the Army Map Service in Georgetown,DC for 30+ years. This high school graduate worked on the 50 foot tall moon map for training for the manned lunar landing, the Tomahawk cruise missile in early 70s, which after he died was used in 1991 in the First Gulf War.
God bless him!
Can you imagine how impossible it would be to keep a military secret in today’s world when my father’s generation was able to pretend that the D-Day invasion was going to occur at Calais, not Normandy, because of the former’s proximity to England? Their maps would’ve been useless.
"D-Day also happens to be the day I mark my liberation from the forces of illiberalism"
Maybe Dunkirk is a more appropriate comparison: a strategic retreat in the face of overwhelming forces so as to regroup and carry on the struggle for liberty with renewed force?
Most would, and do, keep quiet for the sake of their careers. We're indebted to you, Mr Shapiro.
I just had no choice -- and had options on the outside.