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“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”

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Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Forbes was an accomplished publisher, best known for his leadership of Forbes magazine, a globally renowned business and finance publication. Under his tenure, Forbes magazine was transformed into a global brand. more

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