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From the Morgue
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
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D-Day: '... A nightmare played in color -- olive drab and red'
Posted Thursday, June 5, 2014, at 12:00 AM
Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day.
When we discussed the anniversary last week in our newsroom meeting, the question wasn't: "Should we do a story?" Rather, it was: "Can we find any living veterans who participated in the invasion?"
Fifty years ago, in 1964, that wasn't a problem. Reporters at the time tracked down as many veterans of D-Day as they could. They interviewed them and retold their stories in the June 5, 1964, edition. The result is a compelling article, which I'm reprinting in this blog.
Accompanying that article are a number of other items that ran the same day. They include a look at how D-Day was viewed in Cape Girardeau in 1944, as well as a list of the local men who took part in D-Day. Finally, there was an article about the only known Cape Girardeau County casualty of the invasion: Charles E. Dalton.
As we did last week on Memorial Day, it's good to pause and remember those who fought and those who died on Normandy's beaches.
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