De Gaulle said Churchill was leading Britain “towards the heights of one of the greatest glories in the history of the world.” Speaking in English with tears in his eyes, Churchill recalled his broadcast to France in October 1940: “I did not fear to address the French people in French to tell them that a day would come when France would take her place at the head of the great nations and play her part as the champion of liberty and independence.” The post Eighty Years On: Churchill in...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
It’s been called Veterans Day in the United States since 1954. But it was originally called Armistice Day, and the date on which we remember the veterans of all wars was originally chosen because it is the day on which Germany surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War I, in 1918. It […]| Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road