The last great cantonment of those who fought D-day and, as President Bill Clinton said, "saved the world" is a rich piece of history now -- camp broken, tears, embraces and bugle calls fading into other memories. Those tens of thousands of veterans who went one more time to Normandy to hear the thunderous echoes from the hours that shaped their souls and mortally wounded Hitler's monstrous evil are home or headed there to confront age and infirmity, and ultimately to yield to the death they evaded on June 6, 1944.
There was a beautiful sadness about the moment. The serenity...
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