By Lewis E. Lehrman July 4, 2014 - Putnam County News & Recorder Seventy years ago, the landing of Allied soldiers continued on Normandy’s beaches – four weeks after the initial D-Day landings on the French coast. On July 4, 1944, just west of the nearby city of Caen, Canadian troops began Operation Windsor – a bloody assault through French Continue Reading →
By Lewis E. Lehrman June 6, 2014 - Stamford Advocate President Abraham Lincoln, a student of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories, surely could have understood, in the overtures of Henry V, what transpired 80 years later in the invasion of Normandy. King Harry's Crispin-Crispian Day speech before the Battle of Agincourt evoked the momentous drama unfolding on the Normandy beaches, D-Day Continue Reading →