I’M WRITING THIS FRESH FROM NORMANDY, where I attended a street-naming ceremony for the Sherwood Rangers, a British armored regiment that had gone to war on horseback—posted to Palestine in early 1940— been mechanized two years later, and, by May 1945, had accrued more battle honors than any other single unit in the British Army. They landed on Gold Beach on D-Day, supporting the infantry of the
