From the archives: D-Day according to my French Resistance family

Update June 6, 2019: 

As a cub reporter for the Monitor in June 1984, I was not tasked with coming up with the headline for this reflection on D-Day that I submitted to The Home Forum page. But whoever settled on “Allies” back then got it just right.

Now 35 years later and on this 75th anniversary of one of history’s greatest military campaigns in the name of freedom, what still astounds me about that day is the resolve of allies – from the generals to, as President Ronald Reagan called them, the “boys” who selflessly scaled the Pointe du Hoc – to stand by each other for freedom.

That same spirit is what motivated René and Paulette Renaud,