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Jun 2024
51m 10s

Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later

THE ART OF MANLINESS
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 160,000 troops participated in the invasion of Normandy. Today just a few thousand of these veterans are still alive, with the youngest in their late nineties. As their voices, and those of the million combatants and leaders who swept into motion across Europe 80 years ago, fall silent and pass from living history, Garrett Graff has c ... Show More
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