Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 06, 2024

80 years ago today

respect!

80 years on, the heroes are not forgotten.

80 years , never forget.

After words, Snoopy will have a couple of root beers with Bill Mauldin.

We will remember them.

Thank you for this…

After 80 years, there can’t be many survivors left now.

a few years ago, i stood on Omaha Beach and wept. what those men went through…… may we be grateful and astounded by their acts of selflessness

don´t forget to thank the russians (for dividing german forces to the eastern frontiers, or the toll could have been higher).

I understand Hitler had to be woken from a nap to be told that the attack was on

One Nation Under GOD! GOD Bless America!

Three cheers for Snoopy remembering D Day. I miss the days when ALL of the strips would have remembered such a significant event. My sister was born toward the end of May, 1944. So my mother was still at the Maternity Home with the new baby and we went into town to see them. In those days, most rural areas had no electricity and no telephones, so there were not many people with radios. The lady who owned the Cream Station in our town had invested in a wind charger to create electricity so she could sterilize the equipment she had to work with.. So she had a radio which was strong enough to pick up broadcasts from big cities. As some of the stations began to broadcast news about the invasion, she put her radio in the front window of her cream station and people began gathering on her front porch to listen to the broadcasts. In those days, gas was rationed and a lot of the farmers and ranchers still depended on horses for transportation and farm work. My Uncle Gabe, who is in the picture with us, had joined the Army before Pearl Harbor because he wanted to get specialized training. So he was trained in use of that new top secret device – the use of Radar. So he saw action in quite a few different theaters of war. He was at Normandy on D Day. The picture above was taken about Chrustnas 1943 – so that was about six months before the invasion. My Uncle Loren was on a troop transport headed to Pearl Harbor when they learned about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He got there in time for the clean up. Several years ago, a veterans group made it possible for him to take a trip back to Pearl Harbor. My Uncle Ernie was among the troops who liberated the concentration camps. Cousin Royce and the Albin cousins were way Iwo Jima.It’s wonderful that someone remembered. But I miss the days when everyone said they would “never forget” – and they actually remembered.

Today I will raise a glass for the boys who hit the beaches and became men and the men who hit the beaches and never left.

I see all the kisses floating around, but no hugs.

every year the same strip

My father was there.

Every year, the same strip. Always on point, always sobering, always needed. Never forget.

Thank you for remembering!

And for the last 11 out of 10 years this Peanuts D-Day strip replaces a current cycle year Peanuts strip.

80 years… Wow… How many of the D-Day veterans are still alive?

Thank you to a generation who risked everything for us to remain free.

A little respect for those who suffered and died at the hands of WWII.

Remember what?

Thank you for helping us to remember!

My old gaffer was a sailor in the Pacific. When news of the invasion reached his ship, everyone on board started shouting in celebration. He said they felt it was the beginning of the end, to paraphrase Churchill. 8 months later he’s at Iwo, and a month after that Okinawa.

God Bless our veterans.

This has been the only cartoon, so far that has acknowledged the anniversary of D-Day.

Oh, my! How touching and poignant! My dad was in WWII and got loads of medals, but the true heroes are the ones who gave their lives for us!

God Bless The Men And Women Who Passed Away On D-Day. 80 Years, Never Forget.

Never forget their sacrifices for us.

Charles Schulz received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge for his service during WWII.

The Longest Day

I just noticed, it was 2 1/2 years between the Pearl Harbor attack and D Day. But, a lot was going on in the Pacific theatre, at first, most of it bad. But, 2 years before D Day was the battle for Midway Island when the US Navy, under the command of Admiral Spruance, from his flag ship the USS Enterprise, handed the Japanese a decisive defeat sinking 5 of their aircraft carriers.

Lest we ever forget!!

Always a classic strip! Lest we forget. Awesome to see the love and respect given to the few remaining WWII vets who made the journey to Normandy for the 80th anniversary. The NPR broadcast I was listening to this morning said the D-Day vets who made the trek ranged in age from 96 and 97 all the way up to 105. Kudos and thanks for your service gentlemen and also to those women who also served in the armed forces and also in other capacities such as “Rosey the Riveter”. Your generation: “The Greatest Generation” basically saved the world!

God bless our veterans. You have sacrificed so much for us. We owe you a debt that we can never repay.

I live where the D-Day Memorial is, can see it from my window when the leaves are off the trees…. and used to take care of the widow of one of the “Bedford Boys”… I will never forget.

Beautiful

80 years. Always remember. And give thanks,

D Day 6th of June

I’ve always liked this strip….

A special thanks to The 12th Armored Division, where Charles Shultz served as a machine gunner during WW II. The 12th is known as a Liberator Unit, as the 12th Armored Division played a part in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945. Shultz not only learned about the horrors of war, but the loneliness that goes with it as well.

R.I.P. Sparky, and quaff a few root beers with your buddies from the 12th for us.

We already have…..

I look forward to and dread this cartoon every year. Once up a time we had the courage of our convictions. Still love this cartoon, never forget !

Thank you for your service.

Just got a copy of “When the Sea Came Alive,” an extremely detailed oral history of June 6th, 1944.

Snoopy never forgets, and neither shall we.

Always will.

Now reading;" Last Hope Island ;Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war.” by Lynne Olson. I highly recommend it!

Our heroic troops stopped fascism. We as Americans can do it again in November.

They fought and died to defend democracy, all we have to do is vote.

Always.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Never forget how we escaped nazzisism

These were true heroes.

Only cartoon I’ve read so far to honor those people who fought and died for us 80 years ago.

A yearly tradition that should never stop (or be forgotten).

All gave some and too many gave all…:(

Canadians took Juno Beach. We really grew up in WWII.

The French packed their white flags away and took out their rubber stamps to stamp the passports of the British paras who were paying their own tribute: ungrateful barstewards.

Yogi Berra was a D-Day vet

I posted this on my Facebook page yesterday.