Reflections on Veterans Day

In 1944, along the northern coastline of France in a place called Normandy, the future of civilization hung in the balance. At 6:30 a.m. on June 6, the first wave of American troops landed at Omaha Beach. As their Higgins boat troop carriers opened, 18 and 19 year-old young men from cities and farms, from New York to Nebras...