The last longest day
EXCERPT: Emmanuel Macron will not attend the 75th anniversary of D-Day "saying that French presidents only lead international D-Day ceremonies on round-number anniversaries such as the 60th or 70th. ... critics argue that he should make an exception this year as it is likely to be the last major D-Day anniversary while veterans are still alive."...It is probably hard for a man of Macron's age to feel the emotional urgency of those distant days. Seventy five years ago the human impact of the invasion could scarcely be understated. Over 4,400 soldiers died in a single day, the Longest Day, so named in popular culture after Erwin Rommel's prescient observation: "the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive. . . . For the Allies as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."
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