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 Monday, 7 June 2004
CBC News Indepth: D-Day 1944 Front Page  < 2:17:39 AM>.
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.
CBC News:Canadians remember sacrifice of D-Day < 2:08:20 AM>.
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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