The following article that I wrote appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on June 5, 1994, in honor of the 50th anniversary of D-Day: Villagers cried out “Liberate! Liberate!” when the smelly, unshaven U.S. paratrooper limped into town alone. Private Joe Clancy, a member of the 82nd Airborne’s 307th Engineers, warned them that their celebration…