Friday, June 3, 2011

Honoring the fallen at France's D-Day beaches

This June marks the 67th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and the beginning of the end of World War II.


The last great D-Day commemorations were held two years ago, as there likely won't be any veterans alive for the 70th. But Normandy's inhabitants haven't forgotten what the British, Canadian and American troops and their families sacrificed all those years ago. When I was on the small main square of a town in Normandy, an elderly Frenchman

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