The Stoic Mind Behind D-Day

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Out on the English Channel 82 years ago, the ocean hosted a moving city. Thousands of ships and vessels holding some hundred and fifty thousand tense young men, bob in the sea under gloomy skies. Some of them begin to vomit in anticipation of what lies ahead.

It's nearly six in the morning when the flashes start. The whole horizon lights up. British and American battleships begin an enormous barrage raining fire down on the French coast, where these soldiers will soon land. As the boats approach shore the ramps drop, machine guns from the bluffs begin to to rake and sweep the boats and the men with horrendous fire.

Many of the men die before their feet even touch the water, let alone the beach. Some men jump over the sides and are dragged down by their packs and gear. The ones who do land have to make a mad dash across two hundred feet of open sand in some of the most hostile territory imaginable. By nightfall almost five thousand men are dead,

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