Today is the 64th anniversary of the Allied invasion of occupied Europe, the most famous “D-Day” of them all. The heroism of these men remains inspiring. The evil they fought was horrifying. It is a day worth remembering.

Unless, of course, you’re Google, which lived up to its usual assholiness by ignoring D-Day in favor of decorating its search page to celebrate the birthday of Spanish artist Diego Velazquez by dressing up its logo thus:

(Hat tip: Purple Avenger, guest-blogging at Ace of Spades HQ.) Google has frequently ignored Memorial Day and Veterans Day as well. It’s first commemoration of the former was in 2007, and it has yet to honor the latter. As World Net Daily reported on Memorial Day this year:

As WND reported in 2006, Google had no problem honoring the war dead of other countries, creating a special logo with poppies for Remembrance Day in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Last October, Google acknowledged an accomplishment of the communist Soviet Union, which launched the Sputnik space satellite in 1957.

Google also has given special honors for astronomer Percival Lowell, artist Edvard Munch and Louis Braille, inventor of the writing system for the blind.

Other days commemorated included National Teachers Day, Women’s Day, Ray Charles’ birthday, World Water Day and St. George’s Day.

Besides overlooking Memorial Day, it also has ignored Christmas.

And with a hat tip to Michelle Malkin, here’s a Youtube video from last year that shows how today’s media would cover the D-Day invasion if it took place in 2007 instead of 1944:

And for those who say the media wouldn’t have done that, because the Allied cause in World War II was just, while the cause in Iraq is unjust, I say “bullshit.” Virtually every criticism leveled against the Iraq war could be leveled against U.S. involvement in World War II. But I’m going to leave that for another post.