European leaders are hoping to use D-Day commemorations to shake President Trump's skepticism about alliances that have kept global peace for three-quarters of a century | Analysis by stcollinson
The President will see for himself on Thursday the human price paid by thousands of Americans buried under poignant, regimented rows of white gravestones overlooking the beaches they stormed under curtains of Nazi fire on June 6, 1944.Their sacrifice in the Normandy landings helped purchase 75 years of European freedom and prosperity, and enshrined America as the leading world power and guarantor of Western democracy.
Hide Caption 13 of 38 Photos: In pictures: President Trump in EuropeTrump speaks opposite May at a business roundtable discussion in London.Hide Caption 14 of 38 Photos: In pictures: President Trump in EuropeTrump stands next to Queen Elizabeth II before a state banquet at Buckingham Palace on Monday, June 3. Joining them are Melania Trump, Prince Charles and Camilla.
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