(cont'd from yesterday's post)
France is today the site of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. If this hard-fought victory had never happened, potentially we could have seen the horrifying vision of a whole Nazi Europe.
British paratroopers reenacted a drop over Normandy yesterday. Today the president of France awarded their highest distinction, the Legion of Honor, to some American veterans, as well as to a 104-year-old British woman who created the landing maps.
About 200 veterans, all near the age of 100 years old now, are there. Some of them, in few words, tell us what it was like to be part of the Battle of Normandy and how they feel about it. A current soldier whose Jewish grandparents fled Germany in time to escape the fate of millions is moved by meeting the veterans:
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