Hartlepool remembers the 1944 D-Day landings - video Dailymotion

Hartlepool has marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy by holding a remembrance service for members of the public.

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00:00Commemorate the sacrifice and the death made by armed forces and others in two great world

00:17wars of the last century and conflicts that have happened since then. This is a commemoration

00:24just of a part of that. You could say it was the beginning of the ending of the Second

00:31World War. And it's far more than a commemoration of the dead and the fallen, which of course

00:39we do. In a sense it is looking forward, looking forward to the ultimate triumph of good over

00:48evil, which our armed forces in those tumultuous days were involved in.