Last year, only a handful of the Greatest Generation were able to make the D-Day commemoration ceremony. But this year, the 80th, is a big one, and 150 are expected.
PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch the Fox Nation series 'The Final Journey of the Greatest Generation with Martha MacCallum.' As I write this, dozens of world leaders, including President Biden, Emmanuel Macron, King Charles III and the Prince of Wales, are all preparing to travel to a place that has deep meaning in our shared history.
Rondo Scharfe and I met in Guam. He was wearing running shorts and a neon T-shirt at breakfast at the hotel there, before we were about to board the plane to Iwo Jima. Then 92, he appeared no more than 75 at the most. His boyish energy and charm belied his age. To join the Navy in 1943, he had bleached out the numbers on his baptismal certificate and changed them, making him 18, instead of the 16-year-old boy he was at the time.
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