PARIS—This will be my second consecutive Fourth of July spent outside the United States.
Last year, I celebrated our nation’s birthday in Mariupol, Ukraine. It’s a city only a few miles from the front lines of the still-simmering war in Ukraine.
I had burgers and beer with an eclectic group that evening—a Swedish sniper, two former French Foreign Legion soldiers, two former U.S. Army Rangers, and war correspondents from Australia, Belgium, and the United States.
The war was still there, only a few miles away. We could get to it in a 20-minute car ride.
Ukrainian soldiers like these two, near the front in …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
