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Letter to the editor: Not 1965's Flag Day

Whenever I think of Flag Day, I'm reminded of 1965, when President and Lady Bird Johnson hosted the White House Festival of the Arts to honor contemporary American artistic achievement.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lays a wreath of flowers during a ceremony at the US cemetery to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Hegseth confronts Europeans with reality

- The Washington Times

Once, Americans could always count on a warm welcome in Normandy. Even when the rest of France gave us the cold shoulder, at least the locals remembered how we liberated them from the Nazis in 1944.