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The words of the great French anthem rang out over the town square, sung for the first time by liberated Frenchmen in the free capital of Normandy and sung with such a feeling of life and warmth as has not been heard in France for four years.

— Larry LeSueur

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Paris is the happiest city in the world tonight. All Paris is dancing in the streets.

When I graduated, work was still hard to come by, and the nice bosses at Macy's took me on full time.

I watched the living soldiers pass by the dead at the roadside without a glance, and the dead scarcely looked human. They resembled wax mannequins thrown from a show window, lying about in grotesque, inhuman postures, arms pointing toward the sky, legs frozen as though they were running. Their faces were bloodless, waxy white.

Twelve Months That Changed the World (1943)

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