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🗓️ 3 March 2025
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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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0:45.3 | 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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