June 2024 brings the commemoration of eighty years since the D-Day landings, the largest ever sea invasion that started Europe on the path towards the end of the second World War. The brave troops involved and the civilians at home are now thin on the ground. The experiences of that time have been consigned to history.
History can preserve all the facts, but when it comes to the human element, it’s poetry that tells the real story, that looks into fears and emotions, looks into the very soul. Although he was a child at the time, poet Dennis E. Bryant of North Baddesley, Southampton, Hampshire, was there. So his reactions, recalled from that time and remembered over years of anniversaries, give
