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The Memory of War
Title: The Memory of War
Category: History / War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 1380 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Memory of War
On a bright, windy day in March 2000, I stood on a cliff in France looking down at Omaha Beach, site of some of the bloodiest fighting on D-Day, through the firing slit of a preserved German bunker. My view of the beach was so clear and unimpeded that I could read the writing on the sweatshirt of a boy strolling on the sand a hundred feet below. There had been a storm the night before, …showed first 75 words of 1380 total…
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At the end of the movie "Saving Private Ryan," an elderly World War II veteran visits the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, near Omaha Beach. Weeping, he kneels before the grave of a young officer responsible for saving his life, and says, "I have tried to live my life the best I could. I hope that was enough. I hope at least in your eyes I've earned what all of you have done for me."
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