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Friday, June 5, 2009

Normandy was a stop on the way TO Germany


Our president is going to Normandy tomorrow. I am sure that he will say all the right things that we expect any president, regardless of party, to say.


And I am sure that his comments will be worth calling to our attention.


But why is he going to Germany first?


It has been the practice of our presidents to go to Germany whenever they go to Europe. Ronald Reagan even caught heat from conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer when he visited German SS graves on the same trip as he commemorated the fortieth anniversary of D-Day.

I know that we live in a different world now.


But this combining of trips seems to be a slap in the face of our WWII vets and the people who knew or loved them. Would it hurt to do the German visit on a different trip?

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