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… River Elbe At The End Of World War II

"The 70th anniversary of the link-up at the River Elbe deserves commemoration

Seventy years ago this April 25, American and Soviet military met as wartime allies against Nazi Germany in the closing days of World War II in an obscure and now long-forgotten place on the Elbe River called Torgau.

This was a truly special embrace of men in arms in a terribly costly but just war against the most hideous existential threat the modern world had ever known. It brought about a bond between wartime allies that shortly thereafter was lost and abandoned in the Cold War.

It looks increasingly likely that we will not mutually commemorate the 70th anniversary of that symbolic event, which is now less than month away. If we pull back and reflect for a moment, is this what both sides really want? Clearly today's sour political environment makes it hard to imagine the current active duty military leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation standing together in commemoration with the few remaining veterans of that heady 1945 moment…"
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Amicalement
Armand

I hope we can get our leaders (The Big O particularly) to act like "big kids" for once and do this. ALL the ETO vets deserve this. This marked that the end of the game was in sight. Do this one right guys please?

Agree.

Amicalement
Armand