Letters: Jun. 21, 2004

The Lessons of D-Day

"The veterans who fought the crucial battles of World War II are real heroes. We should thank them every day of our lives." KATHY HUGHES Lansing, Ill.

Nancy gibbs' article "The Greatest Day," on the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion [May 31], was one of the most moving pieces I have ever read on the topic of war. As the daughter of a soldier who served in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge, the wife of a sailor who served on river patrols in Vietnam and the friend of a young man who...

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