History remembers it as the “Longest Day” – D-Day, June 6, 1944, the beginning of the end for Hitler’s “1,000-Year Reich.”

According to historian Cornelius Ryan, who wrote the first definitive account of the landings, one American general on the morning of the invasion predicted that people would be talking about this day “long after we are dead and buried.”

He wasn’t far off. Seventy-five years after American, British and Canadian troops waded ashore on the coast of Normandy, we continue to…