June sixth is my first anniversary of being a free agent – Jarche Consulting is one year old today.
Of course, a far more important anniversary is the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Given my own military background, I would be remiss in also remembering those brave soldiers in the 1st Canadian Infantry Division who continued to fight in Italy through 1944; sometimes known as the D-Day Dodgers. Here are two verses from the song "The D-Day Dodgers", sung to the tune of Lili Marlene:
We are the D-Day dodgers out here in Italy
Drinking all the vino, always on the spree,
We didn’t land with Eisenhower
So they think we’re just a shower.
For we’re the D-Day dodgers out here in Italy.If you look around the mountains, in the wind and rain
You’ll find the scattered crosses, some which bear no name.
Heartbreak and toil and suffering gone,
The boys beneath them slumber on.
They are the D-Day dodgers who’ll stay in Italy.
God bless you all.
Happy 1stHope it’ sgone well and the next goes even better :O)
Cheers, James