Max Bauer: 'To commemorate is to transmit the values of freedom'
The duty of remembrance is a moral obligation to the women and men and, above all, our youth.
The commemorations of the Provence Landings and Liberation are part of an approach of unity and fraternity. 'We must be grateful to all those who united to liberate our continent. To forget would be not a crime, but a serious mistake and a mutilation of our memory.
Does today's France still hold the values of honour and homeland?' insists Max Bauer.
When Minister Patricia Mirallès, in charge of memory and veterans, declares: 'Peace is never guaranteed. To believe that our era is vaccinated against barbarism would be naive.
Faced with new threats, we must remain united as were, despite their differences, the soldiers of the Armée d'Afrique. Finally, freedom is lost if it is not defended. It takes courage to defend our principles.'
He adds: 'Madam Minister and a very large number of politicians, show honour and loyalty to the values of the Republic: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Let this not be just words or incantations. Defend the homeland, with firmness, without compromise, for the memory of our liberators'!
And Max Bauer concludes with the beautiful motto of Louis d'Estouteville during the Hundred Years' War: 'Where there is honour, where there is loyalty, there only is the homeland.'