Leonard Pitts Jr.: What was in it for them?
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Sep 09, 2020
2 minutes
The American Cemetery at Normandy sits on a bluff overlooking the beach where, on June 6, 1944, American soldiers waded ashore to begin the invasion of France. The old battlefield is marked with shell craters and gun pits offering mute testimony to the fury of that day. In the cemetery itself stand endless rows of white crosses and the occasional Star of
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