| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Obama pays tribute to D-Day heroes | | World leaders gathered Friday in France for a series of solemn events to mark 70 years since Allied forces poured on to the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day landings. |
| Obama pays tribute to D-Day heroes | | | World leaders gathered Friday in France for a series of solemn events to mark 70 years since Allied forces poured on to the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day landings. |
| Transcript of Obama's speech | | Below are the President's remarks as prepared for Friday's event at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Omaha Beach. |
| D-Day myths | | Anniversaries are useful moments to pause and reflect. For the 70th anniversary of D-Day and subsequent campaign in northern France, it is also an opportunity to look at the past in detail and ask how much of what we think we know is true and how much is well-entrenched myth. Not only is it more interesting, it is also of greater worth as we plan for the future and pray there will never be a conflict like World War II again. |
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