REMEMBER - AT 8:01 A.M. ET:  The president will go to Normandy on his current trip to recall D-Day, June 6, 1944.

But today, June 4th, we commemorate another liberation - the liberation of Rome, also in 1944.  It occurred two days before D-Day and has been largely forgotten.  But the Italian campaign was particularly bitter, resulting in heavy Allied casualties.  We should remember Rome's liberation today, and the part played by American troops.

June 4, 2009