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...D-Day Memory...
...infantryman who fought in Normandy, I was struck by the beautiful truth in your retelling of D-day [DDAY, May 28]. You gave credit where credit was due, to General Dwight Eisenhower and the other officers, but you also told of the heroics and failures of the ordinary soldiers. They are the men who win or lose wars...
Without doubt, D-day was "the beginning of the end," not just of Hitler and World War II but of a naive way of life we once enjoyed. From that day on we were part of an uncertain and unstable future dominated by two new superpowers and were witnesses to the blossoming, often violent, of the Third World...
...boys came home, and Reagan recalls hearing them tell of their exploits. Soon it became clear that "the war to end war" had merely set the stage for another. Germany was on the march again. The gigantic effort to stop Hitler reached its full fury on D-day on the beaches of Normandy. Reagan will be there this week to look and listen and try to understand what it must have been like to fight there, what it must have meant to a President to order young men into the jaws of hell...
After the anticipation of the pre-invasion weeks, the great battle "seemed almost anticlimactic," recalls Kathleen Frost, who as a clerk typed up some of the D-day orders. Today the beaches, lanes and fields of southern England are quiet again, ever-present plaques the prime mementos of the frenzied activity of 40 years ago. American ex-G.I.s sometimes visit, walk those familiar streets, stay the night. But the atmosphere cannot be recreated: the girls, the buddies, the excitement, all are gone. The old soldiers take solace in memory, and in the wonderful glow of victory...