One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 7 June 2004

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CBC News Indepth: D-Day 1944 Front Page
My next most vivid memory is of the French who welcomed us. Right there on the beaches with tears and roses. With bottles of good wine. With eggs and strawberries. But especially with tears. Their homes were being torn up by fierce battle and some of them were dying. But it was the beginning of the end of their nightmare.

I saw them crown our dead Canadians with roses.

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CBC News:Canadians remember sacrifice of D-Day
Many of the veterans walked out to the shore; they scanned the coastline and chatted with friends. Some on the beach shook hands with people from Normandy who said thank-you for liberating their towns.

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World remembers D-Day

Ceremonies are held on the French coast, with tributes to those who died in a crucial battle in Hitler's defeat. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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No one needed to spell it out, but the stakes of the second world war were so high, the cause so great, that our own time seems dwarfed by it. It felt appropriate that when the veterans marched past, the line of seated world leaders stood to applaud them. That seemed the right way around. There was no doubt who looked the bigger men. [Guardian Unlimited]