speeches
INDEPENDENCE DAY, AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE, PARIS
July 4, 2013
Ambassadors come and go; ties between the United States and France are here to stay. Ever stronger and deeper. I saw it everywhere I went; in all the regions I visited; with all the people I met...
NEVER LET THE FISH GET IN THE WAY OF THE FISHING, AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS
June 15, 2013
I don’t remember exactly what happened on that boat that summer morning. I know it was very cold. And I remember being really excited at the chance of spending time alone with ‘Doc’ – my stepfather’s nickname...
Credit: Warrant Officer Patrick Brion, Belgian Armed Forces
D-DAY, OMAHA BEACH, NORMANDY
June 6, 2013
We’re struck by the beauty of the landscape, its quietness, and we wonder how so much horror could be possible. And so, just like that, the silence, the same silence that exists among the white marble gravestones of the American cemetery, becomes deafening...