To mark yesterday’s 81^st anniversary of D-Day, the Atlantic has republished a story from 1960 recounting what happened at Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. It’s more shocking than anything I’ve ever read or viewed before about Omaha, more shocking than the famous opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. … The graphic description by author S.L.A. Marshall — whose stated goal was to provide a non-sanitized account of the landing — starts at the seventh paragraph after a rather odd introduction.