Three songs for the price of none

Imagine the rolling thunderhead is symbolic of the armed forces of twelve allied nations as they approached the coast of Normandy in France on this day in 1944. That was seventy-four years ago and that is a long time by human standards for life and living. Even still living participants who were only twenty years old at the time would be ninety-four now. It will not be many more years until all those with personal experience of the event -- those actually having been there -- will be gone and history will be left to the academians who mostly live by competition with other historians, all of which mostly live within their own self-absorbing fantasies. By the way, for budding historians who are behind in their studies, the invasion of Normandy was during World War II. If that sentence seemed sarcastic, it is because I am a devotee of Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce and have sort of lost my confidence in the teaching of history in American schools.