
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, about 20 people gathered at Veterans Memorial Park in Stamford to reflect on June 6, 1944—a time when war was raging in Europe and Adolf Hitler controlled most of it. “Freedom and democracy were under assault around the world,” stated Philip Alan Gerard, of VFW Post 9617. “But on that day, hope had landed on the beaches of Normandy when 73,000 Americans joined the Allied forces to carry out one of the greatest military missions of all time, a mission that would become known...