Every time the Atlantic partnership needs reinvigoration, U.S. presidents turn to our nation's silent stone diplomats -- the 36 American military memorials throughout Europe.
On Saturday, the 65th anniversary of D-day, President Obama is set to address the European alliance before the same Normandy monuments President Reagan used as a backdrop for his Cold War "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech in 1984, a sweeping challenge to the Soviet Union.
But this "good war" magic remains a solidly European phenomenon -- whether it be D-day or most any other wartime commemoration. Far from the old Cold War frontiers, our nation's South Pacific battlefields sit on the sidelines of great-power geopolitics.
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