WWII vets honored in France ahead of D-Day anniversary: “We’re thinking about all these poor lads who didn’t get off the beach that day, their last day, but they’re always in our minds.”
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Veterans, their families and French and international visitors braved the rainy weather to take part in series of events this weekend and on Monday for the 78th anniversary of D-Day.This year’s D-Day anniversary comes after two successive years of the COVID-19 pandemic restricted or deterred visitors.
Welcomed to the sound of bagpipes at the Pegasus Memorial in the French town of Ranville, British veterans attended a ceremony commemorating a key operation in the first minutes of the Allied invasion of Normandy, when troops had to take control a strategically crucial bridge. Meanwhile, on the British side of the Channel, then 17-year-old Mary Scott was working at the communications center in Portsmouth, listening to the coded messages coming from the front line and passing them on as part of the operations on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches.“When they had to respond to my messages and they lifted their lever, you heard all the sounds of the men on the beaches: bombs, machine guns, men shouting, screaming.
“I took a moment to just hold the sand and you think, gosh, the blood that was spilled to give me that moment and the freedom to hold that sand,” he said. “That was emotional for me.”
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World War II veterans honored a day before D-Day anniversaryMore than 20 British World War II veterans gathered on Sunday near Pegasus Bridge, one of the first sites liberated by Allied forces from Nazi Germany's control, as part of commemorations honoring the nearly 160,000 troops from Britain, the United States, Canada and other nations who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Veterans, their families and French and international visitors braved the rainy weather to take part in series of events organized over the weekend and on Monday for the 78th anniversary of D-Day. This year's D-Day anniversary also comes after two successive years of the COVID-19 pandemic restricted or deterred visitors from coming.
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