about one of my grandpas who landed on the 13th ofjune on the normandy coast. he was one of the people in the 44th lowland brigade of the 15th scottish division. and i don't ever remember him talking about what happened, but he did write down what happened to him and his comrades. and i went and read some of it today as i saw some of those images. and like everybody else watching, i found them so moving. and i went back to some of the things that he had written down and he wrote about the wait and they were waiting off the coast. and then they landed on the 13th ofjune, and he wrote that his brigade were all volunteers. and this really stood with me. he said, "the men who became soldiers, they'd all been living ordinary lives before the war. and they were farm hands, bank clerks, bus drivers, professional footballers, shop assistants, mill workers and men of a hundred other trades." and then he wrote notjust about the landing, which he actually didn't write very much about, but about what happened next. because, of course, d—day was the beginning then of that massive push across europe with all those allied