D-Day: What Does Courage Look Like When History Is Watching
About this episode
The episode explores the human aspects of courage during D-Day through a conversation with historian Dr. Michael Butler.
D-Day gets reduced to a date and a diagram, but the truth is messier, riskier, and far more human. We sit down with historian Dr. Michael Butler to talk about June 6, 1944 not just as the Normandy invasion, but as a moment when thousands of ordinary people stepped into history without knowing how it would end. From the weight of memory carried by veterans to the hard reality of fear and loss, we ask what courage actually looks like when it isn’t a movie scene, but a job you have to do. We al...
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