The force left the United States in late May, but instead of steaming toward Somalia was sent to the D-Day celebration.

Clinton is due to leave for Europe for the D-Day celebrations June 1.

June 6 - A D-Day celebration is held in Washington, D.C..

Soon after the D-Day celebration, the Dallas was called upon to be the flagship for the Operation Able Vigil in response to another mass exodus from Cuba.

Mr. Clinton was not merely trying to slide through this potentially awkward week of D-Day celebrations in Europe.

This was displayed last summer amid the D-Day celebrations, which overstated the battlefield contribution of the Western Allies to Nazism's end.

A Task for Clinton The D-Day celebrations represent a changing of the guard.

Information about the proposed redeployment emerged just as President Bush arrived in Europe for talks with government leaders and for 60th anniversary D-Day celebrations in France.

Mr. Clinton is expected to make his decision next week, before he heads to Europe on June 1 for D-Day celebrations.

No, there was really no place for us Germans at the D-Day celebrations on the beaches of Normandy.