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Brenda Elthon
Aug 22, 2023
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When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waved his agreement with Hitler in September 1938, the peace in Europe was nineteen years old.

Young war widows had remarried, but gold star mothers, now in their sixties, were in mourning still.

Some clung to a bitter hope — candles lit in windows; bedrooms left unchanged — as French farmers uncovered the d…

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