Another observance takes place in Grenoble, in the Alps near the Swiss border where a 10-kilometer race takes runners past sites related to the French resistance.
Our ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, has been quite busy making the rounds of commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and last year's 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. About ten days ago, she visited Natzweiler-Struthof, the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil.
Some people in France don't want to talk about the events 70 years ago, but others are more than happy to do so.
Robert Lion, then 22, was in a communications unit on the northern shore of Lake Constance in a town called Uberlingen on May 5, 1945.
"The war seemed almost over, and we could take it easy after the hectic days of moving behind the lines from Alsace across the Rhine through the mountains and forests of 'Schwarzwald,'" he said, referring to the Black Forest region in southwestern Germany.
Drawing to a Close in Europe. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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