Mr Obama has agreed to return to France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.
It was 60 years ago, and it was almost impossible for later generations - despite everything that was in the film Saving Private Ryan - to even imagine what bravery it took to land on D-Day and fight the ferocious Normandy campaign.
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As a staff sergeant with the 293rd Combat Engineer Battalion, Lewis landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and had been fighting for nearly a year.
Evacuees could only return home after the island was liberated on 9 May 1945, nearly a year on from the Normandy landings and the day after victory in Europe was celebrated.
The need to recruit more teachers was also a priority highlighted in the speech - with the governor saying that in the next eight years the state needed to recruit "more teachers than were troops in the allied forces that stormed Normandy on D-Day".
He made several combat jumps during World War II, including into Normandy as part of D-Day.
The British historian Andrew Roberts, whom I ran into on the beaches of Normandy on the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day, told me that something like 95 per cent of the allied troops who died that day were English-speaking.
After all, the World War II veteran didn't recall losing a dog tag after landing in Normandy with the 90th Infantry division on D-Day and fighting across Nazi-occupied France.
Old soldiers, sailors and airmen of 14 nations marched together behind the flags of all their nations at Sunday's medal ceremony in Normandy to reflect their common enterprise as allies on D-Day.
Millin, now 81, will be honored in Normandy at 60th anniversary ceremonies and his pipes and uniform from D-Day are on permanent display in Edinburgh Castle.
However, the day of the blackmarket people is ending, because there are great quantities of butter, meat, and vegetables in Normandy, Brittany, and Anjou at about an eighth of Paris prices, and bringing them here is now simply a matter of transportation.
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