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...arts under Ahmadinejad, and Moussavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard, a former university dean, expressing hope for independent universities. Then the star of the show, former President Mohammed Khatami - who dropped out of the race to endorse Mousavi - took the stage to deafening cheers of "Greetings to Khatami!" He spoke of an Islam based on rationality and on "Iran's powerful youth and the potential of its women...
...ahead. "We know it is a long and difficult way," said Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, according to a translation of his prepared remarks. "But we also know how much a united Europe and an America true to its values can achieve together." A few minutes after Sarkozy spoke, British prime minister Gordon Brown said to his colleagues, "We are eternal allies because of this...
...invasion he spoke of was an undertaking as large and treacherous as anything that has ever been attempted. Thousands of vessels charged the coasts, where German defenses, manned by about 50,000 soldiers, laid in wait. Less than three months later, on August 29, 1944, the death toll in Normandy was staggering: an estimated 38,500 Allied soldiers, 60,000 German troops, and 20,000 civilians had been killed...
Survivors of the invasion are now a dwindling group - 18-year-olds in 1944 are now 83 years old. Benjamin Franklin, one of those veterans from Knoxville, Tenn., stood on a bluff overlooking the beach and spoke to Obama, Sarkozy, Brown, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Prince Charles of Britain. Sixty-five years ago, Franklin had landed with Allied forces and fought for more than three months in the farmlands of Normandy. Over the last 25 years, Franklin has been giving talks about his experience. Now that was coming to an end. "This is the end of my military...
Obama also spoke of the need to apply the lessons of the past to the future. As we face down the hardships and struggles of our time," he said, "and arrive at that hour for which we were born, we cannot help but draw strength from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow able to swallow their fears and secure a beachhead on an unforgiving shore...