The story of D-Day.
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
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Every June 6 for the past dozen years, No Pasarán has commemorated the D-Day troops
with a post headed by a different line from Paul Anka's unforgettable song for "The Longest Day"
This year, we made it to the fourth line of the third stanza, and
it turns out that the real word is "Filled with blood and sweat and tears".
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/paulanka/thelongestday.html
But for me, ever since I saw the movie at the tender age of 9 or 10
— I was in awe as I realized that I had finally seen a realistic war movie —
it has always been blood and "sand" and tears, and so it shall remain here…
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