In memory of all Swiss citizen-soldiers dying during active service in WW 1 and WW 2 for their country due to border skirmishes, in the air, due to accidents and illness (cought while caring for French, Polish and soldiers of other nations during their detaining). In memory of all civilians dying during erroneous bombardments on Swiss towns.
And every one of them is one too much. And I don't care if the Swiss Army would have performed badly against the German Wehrmacht or not... I am happy that the Invasion didn't happen. And I am thankful for the successful Allied effort to liberate Europe!
O man now we are even mixed up by Major Bloodnok with jodeling Italians (Südtiroler the german speaking minority occupied by the Italians at the end of WW1 from Austria-Hungary)...now it is getting complicated .
Amazing... some of us are able to read and write and don't dwell in the mountains aka Alps. We are even able (some of us) to not only speak a local Swiss German dialect (if we don't speak French or Italian or a cozy language named Rumantsch) but to speak also the Standard German language deriving from the times of Martin Luther (no not Martin Luther King...). There are even lowland dwellers like me living on the banks of the river Rhine. And beware over 25 percent of the population doesn't hold a Swiss citizenship.