The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy
by John Leicester,Sylvie Corbet and Danica Kirka
Jun 04, 2024
3 minutes
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Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day.
of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944. They remembered fallen friends. They relived
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