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In advance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I'd like to remind Americans that our oldest ally, France, maintains a noble soul. https://t.co/C9DTp12dKl
Every #MemorialDay, I share this video. French caretakers take the sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy and scrub them into the letters to give them the brown/gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. https://t.co/TfE6gFD6lD
i had not been aware of this it doesn't feel quite the same: the Dutch were formally neutral. but it was certainly a friendly neutrality! https://t.co/ehN8huy2yo https://t.co/DoyTsLtOP0
i am not a realist because i think memory and ritual are more important to amity and enmity between nations than are crass material concerns https://t.co/OwS2uIuQJ3
lincoln understood this https://t.co/UdiH5vbwFF
dang 🥲😠https://t.co/F97B0hbuHK
@eigenrobot I would take ONE HUNDRED strains of herpes for La Dette d'Honneur https://t.co/7hCg2UKBTL
@eigenrobot Madame : Nous reviendrons.https://t.co/qysDrSHpov