King Charles III honors a generation that fought, died and waited for freedom
by Danica Kirka
Jun 06, 2024
3 minutes
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King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy.
He also came to honor a generation.
It is a generation that sacrificed and fought and died and waited through five long years of war, then sent its youngest and bravest to claw their way onto the Normandy beaches and battle through machine-gun fire and artillery blasts to begin the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944.
It is also a generation that is quickly passing into history, with
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