The general who apologized to the dead soldiers on Memorial Day
By Nicolaus Mills
Updated 4:03 PM ET, Sat May 23, 2015
70 years ago, an American general made an extraordinary Memorial Day speech
Nicolaus Mills: Gen. Lucian Truscott spoke out against glorifying war
"Nicolaus Mills is professor of American studies at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is "Every Army Man Is with You: The Cadets Who Won the 1964 Army-Navy Game, Fought in Vietnam, and Came Home Forever Changed." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his."
(CNN)Memorial Day 1945 was a somber time for most Americans, and 70 years later it still carries with it a special poignancy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been dead just over a month, and while the war in Europe had concluded, it was too early to begin celebrating victory over the Axis powers. The fighting in the Pacific, where the battle for Okinawa had begun in April and would last through most of June, was still taking a heavy toll.
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