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Jul 2024
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Little Happier: A Pamphlet for D-Day Sol...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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The eightieth anniversary of D-Day reminded me of how, during my family’s trip to Normandy, reading the 1944 D-Day guide for soldiers gave me the “America feeling.”

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