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Veterans' groups, acknowledging that Reagan has been a good friend of the military, were more restrained in their protests. "It would not sit well with American veterans for the President to lay a wreath at the graves of Nazi soldiers," said Clarence M. Bacon, national commander of the American Legion...
...year-old gunner, tried to get out the escape hatch, found it jammed. He tried the window, but it was too small. He was trapped inside the plunging fragment. When Belgian peasants found him lying in a field, still alive, they took him to a hospital. There he lay unconscious for eight days while doctors treated him for his remarkably minor injuries: a lacerated tongue, a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach and a bruised thigh. When he came to, he was asked what he had done when he had realized that he was trapped inside the tail. The gunner...
...Marseillaise. "There was the joy of being alive, but it was mixed with much sadness," Hallery says. "Two hundred to three hundred people a day were still dying in the camp, from exhaustion and hunger. There were bodies everywhere." Hallery went to the infirmary where one of his friends lay nearing the end. "I know I'm finished," the friend said, "but I want you to tell my wife one thing. Tell her I had the joy of knowing the war is over." -- By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Michael Adler/Paris and Zona Sparks/New York
...past. The new Germany is built around the thin strand of decency, symbolized by people like Adenauer and Brandt, that reaches back to the pre-Nazi era. If history is what the President wants to acknowledge, it is this German history that deserves remembrance. For Kohl and Reagan to lay a wreath at Bitburg is to subvert, however thoughtlessly, the discontinuity that is the moral foundation of the new Germany...
...Majority Leader Robert Dole on Friday had publicly attacked the White House for "surrendering to the deficit" by dropping its support for the Senate's plan to freeze Social Security benefits for one year. Dole's remark, quoted in the Saturday-morning papers, stirred Reagan's wrath as he lay in bed only two hours away from surgery. He adamantly insisted to Regan that the Senate majority leader, and the public, be disabused of the notion that the White House was caving in. The chief of staff later called Dole to express the President's unhappiness with what Regan described...