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...collapse, and victory would come swiftly. If Saddam fled to, say, his hometown of Tikrit, 100 miles north, his army might well give up the fight. The optimists' final scenario: allied caravans rolling through Baghdad, greeted by thousands of liberated, cheering Iraqis (an updated version of Paris' liberation after D-day...
...midnight, Sept. 11, 2001, it hit me when I got back to Boston that...for the rest of my life, my birthday is going to be like D-Day, but worse, and I realized I’m not going to be going out to the clubs to celebrate,” he said. “But then I realized that’s probably the best way to deal with it—we’re alive and in pretty good shape, and let’s celebrate it while we’re here...
...collapsing towers make us think of patriotism? What about the rubble at Ground Zero, or the smoky wall of the Pentagon? These are horrible images, and the only thing they make me think of is how vulnerable and frail we all are. We can commemorate patriotic martyrs on D-Day, Pearl Harbor Day, Memorial Day, Veterans’ Day, and countless other times during the year, but the anniversary of Sept. 11 should be set aside as a day of complete tragedy, a day of sadness, a day when our thoughts go to things more sacred than love of country...
...pursued his calling, traveling to China in 1938 to cover the Sino-Japanese war, back to Spain as the Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic death...
After graduating from Haverford College in 1943 at the height of World War II, Whitehead enlisted in the Navy, serving on the first wave of landing craft that hit the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, and later participating in the invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa...