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MEMORIES In 1952 Dwight Eisenhower stood before a crowd of World War II veterans and suddenly he could not continue speaking. His voice cracked, his eyes filled. The man who planned D-Day began to cry. He paused, and tried to continue, but he couldn't. The audience didn't interrupt. They understood. Many of them had been there. Eisenhower was often remembered as calm and controlled. But in that moment, the mask slipped, and what remained was a man who had carried the cost of war for years and still felt it deeply. Even the man who won the war never stopped mourning those who paid for it.