mushroom - my wife's uncle was one of the first on the beaches - he was driving an armoured digger to clear the wire and allow the following soldiers to get access to the beach.
As he drove onto the beach, he came under a hail of machine gun fire from the German forces on the cliffs, and he shouted to his gunner to get down out of sight, but his colleague was already dead, and had fallen forward under the digger tracks.
My wife's uncle was just twenty-one years old.
His bravery was just that of one man, multiply that by the thousands of others who acted in a similar way, and it makes the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and Vince Cable look like the people they are - small-minded nasty attention seekers who carelessly abuse the freedoms so hard won for them.
They - and all other protesters, should hang their heads in shame.