Faith & Sacrifice: Remembering the Chaplains Who Strengthened Our Troops on D-Day – News [Video]

by Maaike Duininck &  Jorge Gomez • 6 minutes

Today, we commemorate the 81^st anniversary of the D-Day invasion. On this day in 1944, more than 150,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.

This incredible military operation, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, was a pivotal turning point that resulted in the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.

Reenactments and films, such as Saving Private Ryan, help depict the heroic efforts that were witnessed on this day. We see images of young soldiers huddled shoulder-to-shoulder landing on the mine-riddled beach, while German machine guns rain fire on them. They also give us perspective of the risk these brave men took while putting themselves in harm’s way.

But alongside those soldiers is a group of men in uniform who rarely get the attention they deserve. Chaplains were right there …