My grandfather died in WW2 and left behind a young widow with 3 children. Although it's a different story than D-Day as he died in Africa from malaria, he was still protecting the world from conflict.
I feel sad when people suggest it should be forgotten. The person my father became may well have very different if his father hadn't died when he was only 2.
The sacrifices made by the soldiers and the impact throughout the generations has been phenomenal. Soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, but many families out there deserve recognition on special anniversaries, unless it's doomed to happen again and lessons can't be learned.
So very sorry to hear all the losses, recently and historically. Many of us are glad to have that recognition in society for the generations that have been impacted by WW2. We are disrespecting huge swathes of society by not acknowledging the issues they and their families have had because of what happened. My father would have had more self control and possibly been much kinder. I was affected badly by him and in turn this has impacted my parenting and forced me to protect my children from him by having absolutely no contact with him.
It is imperative that as a world, we remember what war does and this sort of celebration allows people to share stories, which otherwise may never have been told. They deserve our respect.