On the morning of June 12, 1940, Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall stood before the graduating class at his alma mater, his mind full of dark forebodings. "This is a day of high emotion for you men," said he to Virginia Military Institute's grey-uniformed seniors. "It may also be one of the most fateful days in the history of the world . . ." General Marshall was right. That morning, President Roosevelt had summoned him to an emergency meeting: German troops were advancing on Paris.
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