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Daily Bread for 6.6.24: D-Day, Eighty Years On

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Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset 8:31 for 15h 14m 24s of daytime. The moon is new with none of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 5:30 PM.

On this day in 1944, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, begins with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies would land on five invasion beaches and were pushing inland.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer, Broadcast on June 6, 1944:

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Daily Bread for 12.22.22: Inside the Russian Unit That Killed Dozens of Civilians

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be snowy with a high of 27. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:24 PM for 9h 01m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.1% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1864, Savannah, Georgia, falls to the Union’s Army of the Tennessee, and…

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Daily Bread for 11.5.22: Crime Scene Bucha: How Russian Soldiers Ran a “Cleansing” Operation in Ukraine

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be windy, with morning showers and a high of 61. Sunrise is 7:35 AM and sunset 5:41 PM for 10h 06m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 91.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1872, in defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony…

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Daily Bread for 6.6.22: D-Day, Seventy-Eight Years On

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 70. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:30 PM for 15h 13m 57s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 38.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1944,  Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, begins with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred…

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Daily Bread for 3.3.22: A Ukrainian Family Prepares for War in Kyiv

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33.  Sunrise is 6:25 AM and sunset 5:47 PM for 11h 22m 10s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 0.9% its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. holds a business meeting at…