D-Day veterans who braved bullets and barbed wire to storm the Normandy beaches 70 years ago face a new obstacle to this summer's commemoration - French bureaucracy.
Nine hundred members of the British Normandy Veterans' Association will be among thousands returning to the scene of bloody sacrifice in June.
It
is expected to be the last big anniversary gathering because of the
ever-dwindling number of the heroes who took part in the landings on
June 6 1944.
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C'est la guerre! I am really really shocked, shocked, I say!
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This really should stick in the craw of every veteran who still is around-- once again we see the French...well...being French. I visited Normandie in October 1998 - a friend of mine was a nanny for an American ex-pat and her four kids. Beautiful country, but that vast cemetery full of our boys' bodies made me nauseous. When I got there, hurricane-force winds were blowing, the rain was going horizontal. I looked over the huge cliff down to the beach and was struck deeply by how amazing it was that anyone survived. NOW - treating the vets who did survive in such a ridiculous manner - Boycott this event and stop going to this ungrateful country.
Yes and it was close even though the Germans guessed that this wasn't the main assault.
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