Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with U.S. Army paratroopers of Easy Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Strike), 101st Airborne Division, at Greenham Common Airfield in England, June 5, 1944 (National Archives/Handout via Reuters)

General Eisenhower’s words provide a good example to emulate in our next 250 years.

This weekend marks the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. One suspects that, after the major celebrations that marked the 80th anniversary in 2024, 2026 will be a much quieter affair. This, perhaps, is appropriate. Of the 16.4 million Americans who served worldwide during World War II, only around 45,000 remain, and they die every day — the very youngest are now in their late 90s. Some 73,000 Americans actually landed in Normandy on D-Day. No one has precise figures for the number of American D-Day survivors, but if we extrapolate from the WWII figures, perhaps only approximately 200 of ...

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