As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it rose again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought and died exactly 80 years ago Thursday, kicking off intense…
World War II veterans are joining heads of state and others Thursday on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
French President Emmanuel Macron told D-Day veterans on Thursday that ″France will never forget″ their battle to liberate Europe from the Nazis. She was among a crowd of thousands of people that stretched for several kilometers along Utah beach, the westernmost of the D-Day beaches. The fair-like atmosphere fueled by World War II-era jeeps and trucks tearing down hedge-rowed lanes so deadly for Allied troops who fought dug-in German defenders, and of reenactors playing at war on sands where D-Day soldiers fell, leave open the question of what meaning anniversaries will have once the veterans are gone.
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