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D-Day 82nd anniversary honoured in France

World leaders and the last remaining veterans gathered in Normandy on Saturday to mark the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. Commemorations in Langrune-sur-Mer and Colleville-sur-Mer paid tribute to the 160,000 Allied troops who launched the liberation of Europe in 1944.

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00:00International leaders and military personnel gathered in Normandy on Saturday to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day beach
00:08landings.
00:10The ceremonies at Langrune-sur-Mer honored those who took part in Operation Overlord during World War II,
00:16with six of the last surviving veterans making the journey to France.
00:21U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hexel was present alongside military commanders to late tributes
00:26and praised the servicemen who fought to change the course of the war.
00:30The men buried here fought in a warfighting alliance where every partner brought its full measure of industry, courage, and
00:40sacrifice.
00:41Not empty slogans, not lavish summits, not communiques.
00:49Real allies doing real things, taking real losses for a shared cause worth fighting and dying for.
00:58UK Defense Secretary John Healy also paid his respects, laying a wreath at the British Normandy Memorial,
01:05which lists more than 22,000 names on its roll of honor.
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