Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944 (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.
Oh, to have been there. Of course, I would be 80 years old now, but you know what I mean.
If you take a closer look, the little old man down in the right front makes it for me. Stooped, dressed in a suit in the August heat, had probably wondered if this day would ever come, but there he is clapping. He’s of the right age to remember the last war as well, maybe to have fought in it.
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