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Join Random Notes Things I’ve jotted down this week, as the unpredictable April days alternate from chilly and wet to warm and cloudy. I was reading these tweets by a guy who is walking from Washington, D.C., to New York City and realized the only exercise I get these days is pushing the shopping cart down the aisles of my supermarket. Speaking of, it’s official: I’m the only person at my supermarket who is still following the one-way arrow signs in the aisles. And that includes the employees. Subscribe and get unlimited access to our online magazine archive.

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John Long It comes as a sudden newsflash to no one that the WWII generation is rapidly leaving us. We all can look back at friends, relatives, neighbors who proudly served in the biggest war in history but who have now passed on. It doesn’t take much perusing of the obituaries to find others of the Greatest Generation answering their final roll call. This past weekend was especially somber for those of us who admire the survivors of WWII. Two men in particular — neither of whom I ever met, both of whom I wanted to someday — passed away, their deaths attracting natio...

Sergeant Ray Lambert, the army medic in the first wave that assaulted Omaha beach on D-Day, died this past Friday night, at age 100. Two years ago on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, he spoke with our Malcolm Brabant beside the concrete block where he saved many lives that fateful day.

Ray Lambert, an American Hero on D-Day, Dies at 100 A medic, he pulled wounded comrades out of the water one after another while suffering grievous wounds. President Trump honored him in a ceremony. Ray Lambert in 2014. He survived multiple wounds on D-Day while saving the lives of comrades and was honored in Normandy 75 years later. Credit...Gerry Broome/Associated Press By The Associated Press April 13, 2021 Ray Lambert, a much-decorated former Army medic who survived multiple wounds on D-Day in aiding his comrades and was saluted in Normandy on the 75th anniversary of that most pivotal ba...