President Obama first met Sergeant Cory Remsburg close to a graveyard for American soldiers in Normandy, at a commemoration of the sixty-fifth anniversary of D Day, in June, 2009. Remsburg, an Army Ranger, was playing the role of one of the paratroopers at Omaha Beach, where many of them had died. Obama watched the reënactment of their jump and, afterward, talked with Remsburg for a while. In his speech that day, Obama remembered “men like Zane Schlemmer of the 82nd Airborne, who parachuted i...
President Obama first met Sergeant Cory Remsburg close to a graveyard for American soldiers in Normandy, at a commemoration of the sixty-fifth anniversary of D Day, in June, 2009. Remsburg, an Army Ranger, was playing the role of one of the paratroopers at Omaha Beach, where many of them had died. Obama watched the reënactment of their jump and, afterward, talked with Remsburg for a while. In his speech that day, Obama remembered “men like Zane Schlemmer of the 82nd Airborne, who parachuted i...
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