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Normandy honors memories of D-Day landings - We will never forget
By FREDERIC VEILLE, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 6, 2:49 PM ET

ASNELLES-SUR-MER, France - American and British veterans marked the 62nd anniversary of the D-Day landings Tuesday with ceremonies and talks to schoolchildren about the invasion that changed the course of World War II.

Hundreds of relatives and others joined at least two dozen veterans to remember the June 6, 1944, invasion on Normandy's beaches that helped free France — and much of Europe — from Nazi Germany's grip.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge laid a wreath along with the U.S. ambassador to France at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, where thousands of crosses and Stars of David mark soldiers' graves on a finely groomed lawn.

At Utah Beach, where thousands of Americans stormed ashore, about 150 people gathered for a ceremony to honor veterans from the 101st Airborne Division under blue skies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606/ap_on_re_eu/d_day_remembrance;_ylt=At9E47hXLd7jhLClCcEHGS1WbBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--







thank you Bud

slideshow here

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/060606ddayanniv;_ylt=AsiyNgU8UhpoAQb3re1qDz_lWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--

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