Keeping D-Day Memories Fresh (NPR News)
From NPR News:
By Elanor Beardsley
Weekend Edition Saturday
June 6, 2009
The small villages in Normandy have a long tradition of honoring the American, British and Canadian soldiers who fought and died on the D-Day beaches in 1944. As the generation who witnessed those landings dies out, the French are determined the next generation will continue that tradition.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105064958
Also: Scott Simon on Weekend Edition, "If Not for D-Day, It Would Have Been Doomsday" - "...today's anniversary may remind us what was at stake 65 years ago. The young soldiers of 1944, now gone or grown old, had no exit strategy. They could only win, or die trying..."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105064196
By Elanor Beardsley
Weekend Edition Saturday
June 6, 2009
The small villages in Normandy have a long tradition of honoring the American, British and Canadian soldiers who fought and died on the D-Day beaches in 1944. As the generation who witnessed those landings dies out, the French are determined the next generation will continue that tradition.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105064958
Also: Scott Simon on Weekend Edition, "If Not for D-Day, It Would Have Been Doomsday" - "...today's anniversary may remind us what was at stake 65 years ago. The young soldiers of 1944, now gone or grown old, had no exit strategy. They could only win, or die trying..."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105064196
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