The bravery and valor of young American men is usually what I take from memorials of D-Day. This year, something else has struck me like never before: the gratitude of the French for these men who liberated them of the Nazis before liberating the rest of Europe.
At first, these expressions of gratitude caught me off guard. (I know that’s stupid, but back in 2003, when I picked up a college-aged French hitchhiker in Galway and asked if he had ever visited the States, he said, “French do not go to America.”) But this immense gratitude is fitting, of course.
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