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Article: Recognizing the price of freedom.(President's Page)
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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On March 18th, coincidentally my birthday, I spent the day visiting the site of the D-Day invasions at Colleville-sur-Mer (Omaha Beach), Pointe du Hue, Viervillesur-Mer (Utah Beach) and the American Cemetery on the coast of Normandy in France. I had traveled to France to spend some time with the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, which, under the chairmanship of Tom Smith of Pensacola, had planned an executive council meeting in Paris. (This should make the section membership double immediately.)
My fiance, Steve, has always been fascinated by World War II, so we decided to spend the two days prior to the meeting in Normandy. He had read Tom Brokaw's ...