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    Sweet Virginia

    Virginia D'Albert Lake, who died in 1997, is a true D-Day hero: l'Americaine stayed on in France through the occupation, joined the resistance and helped to rescue more than 60 Allied airmen before her deportation to a concentration camp. [NPR]


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