We've been cleaning...
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| Having a chat with a D-Day Veteran in France, June 1994 |
We weren't quite so old as he but nobody in the photo is less than 39 years old. We were all there for the 50th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings, D-Day. The Department of Defense funded National Guard "Honor Platoons" and I was fortunate enough to be selected for one and went as a squad leader. With me is Woody Ramsey and a Platoon Sergeant from the Maryland National Guard as well as the veteran. I think that our Platoon Sergeant, John Johnson of Wytheville, VA took this photo.
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| The Major of Saint-Lô's marker at Colleville, MAJ Thomas D. Howie |
We visited the cemeteries and memorials...
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| Flanking two veterans at the memorial to MAJ Thomas D. Howie, Saint-Lô, France, June 1994 |
We stayed in the gymnasium at a local school in Le Molay-Littry...
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| Getting ready for the day's ceremonies... |
And we saw the heads of state commemorate the landings...
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| The big wheels with Queen Elizabeth, Bill Clinton and whoever the French guy was at the time... |
Security for that wasn't as tight as it is to get on an airplane today.
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