Obama’s European Tour Of Humanity’s Failure, Resilience

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My latest story from Air Force One:

When it comes to humanity’s darkest moments, time is both a blessing and a curse. Firebombed cities get rebuilt. Saplings grow in abandoned death camps. Wounded soldiers heal or pass on. Yet with rebirth comes the danger of forgetting, of repeating old mistakes and of failing to learn history’s bloodiest lessons.

President Barack Obama spent his day Friday, in advance of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, immersed in this contradiction. The morning began in Dresden. . . .

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