Today is Memorial Day in Pennsylvania and across the nation. On Memorial Day in 1945, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott Jr., commander of the U.S. Fifth Army, delivered what may well be the most moving and iconic of all addresses. The famed combat cartoonist Bill Mauldin called it “the most moving gesture I ever saw,” according to Hodges. He said he thought that was the least he could do,” Truscott said, according to Mauldin. Have a peaceful Memorial Day.

Source: CNN May 29, 2023 12:20 UTC