If prayer were made of sound, the skies over england that night would have deafened the wor world. Captains paced their decks, pilots tapped their gauges. Commanders pored over maps fully aware that for all the months of meticulous planning, everything could go wrong. The winds, the tides, the element of surprise. And above all, the audacious bet that what waited an the other side of the channel would compel men not to shrink away but to charge ahead. Fresh faced gis rubbed trinkets, kissed pictures of sweethearts, checked and rechecked their equipment. God, asked one, give me guts. And in the predawn hours, planes rumbled down runways. Gliders and paratroopers slipped through the sky. Giant screws began to turn on an armada that looked more like ships than sea. And more than 150,000 souls set off toward this tiny sliver of sand upon which hung more than the fate of a war. But rather, the course of human history. President hollande, distinguished guests, i am honored to return here tod
GARDNER In connection with Earth Day, Mount Wachusett Community College’s Senator Robert D. Wetmore Center for Forest and Wood Products will host the first in a series of panel discussions of environmental issues as well as the forest and wood.