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Welcome to the Antold Story podcast.

I'm Martha McCallum, and we're getting close to the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and we'll be doing live coverage from there. And I can't think of a better person to speak with as we get ready

for that journey than Garrett Graff, who is the author of many remarkable history books. And he's a

Pulitzer Prize finalist. And his new book is called When the Sea Came Alive, an oral history

of D-Day. So, Garrett, welcome. It's great to have you

with us today. Thanks so much for having me, and thanks for marking this important anniversary.

It certainly is. And, you know, I never get tired of revisiting this day. And in the intro to your book, you write about the fact that,

although there are many D-Day's for most of us and most of those in history, there's really

only one, right? Yeah. I mean, D-Day is, as you know, a very straightforward and ubiquitous military term that just means the start

of any operation, since for a large complex operations, the planning starts long before a date or time

or even location is necessarily selected. But, you know, if you say D-Day to anyone on the street,

there is only one D-Day that people think of. And it is June 6, 1944.

You know, you talk about the, the, all the writing that has been done on this topic and you know wonderful films the longest day

and saving private Ryan and all of these great documents so as a historian who has tackled

September 11th with the only plane in the sky and many other great historic moments what made

you decide that this is the book you wanted to write now?

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