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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: A Military Pamphlet from WWII Reflects My Dream for the United States

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

During my family’s trip to Normandy, reading the D-Day guide for soldiers gave me the “America feeling.” Its plain words, aimed at soldiers headed to France, captured my dream for America. 

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0:00.0

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0:45.3

Lemonada. I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier. The other day, as I was waiting for a friend to meet me for

0:55.6

coffee, I started looking through old photos in my phone. I was scrolling through the months and

1:01.3

years at random, and I hit a bunch of photos from the summer that my family and I went on a trip to

1:06.4

France. I told this story related to this trip several years ago, but looking at the photos reminded me of it once again.

1:14.9

As part of the trip, we visited the awe-inspiring World War II D-Day sites in Normandy, the sites related to the landing operations on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, the Allied invasion. We visited places such as Omaha Beach,

1:32.3

Utah Beach, and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. It was a fascinating day and deeply

1:40.8

moving. It's hard to grasp the magnitude of what happened there in June 1944. So much

1:47.7

planning, so much courage, so much sacrifice. I've spoken often about my America feeling,

1:56.2

and no surprise, I experienced the America feeling as we visited the sites, and I experienced my

2:03.0

America feeling all over again, just looking at the pictures years later.

2:08.8

But something that's true for me is that I feel ideas most deeply when they come to me

2:14.5

through words.

2:15.9

I can visit places, I can see things, but in the end,

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