[Magdalen] D-Day

[Grace Cangialosi]

I was ten months old, so I don't remember it. My dad was stationed in Italy, and my mother and I were living in Carmel, CA

However, what I'm always reminded of is the fact that it was the D-Day event that was the impetus for Gordon Cosby to found the Church of the Saviour in DC after the war.  He was a Southern Baptist Army chaplain, and he was on the beach that day. He has written very movingly about that experience and about visiting with soldiers the night before the invasion and about having his closest friend there, who shared his vision of what church could and should look like, die in his arms.
He had already realised that he couldn't go back to the States and pastor a Baptist Church that would have to be segregated, so when he returned home, he and Mary and two other couples began praying and dreaming about founding a new kind of church community.

On June 6, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:


And here's the question:
 
Where were you when you heard about D-Day (June 6, 1944 if you are
old enough to have been around)?
 
I was having lunch in our cottage at "the lake" (Big Wood Lake,  Burnett
County, Wisconsin).  The little plastic radio in the dining area  crackled
out the essentials over the Twin Cities CBS station there (WCCO), and
we all listened knowing that this was history in the making.
 
There was, of course, no television coverage since the Twin Cities
stations didn't start television broadcasts until about 1949.  We got  our
first home television in 1953.
 
 
 
 
David Strang.