Do the French remember?

Monday, May 9, 2005

Hundreds of thousands of military personnel converged on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day. My father was among them. The first difficult footprints in the sands of Normandy beaches had begun the path that led to V-E Day on May 8 in 1945.

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