US couple, 100 and 96, marry in Normandy, France: ‘We get butterflies’
"The location was the elegant stone-worked town hall of Carentan, a key initial D-Day objective that saw ferocious fighting after the 6 June 1944, Allied landings that helped rid Europe of Adolf Hitler’s tyranny.
Like other towns and villages across the Normandy coast where nearly 160,000 Allied troops came ashore under fire on five code-named beaches, it’s an effervescent hub of remembrance and celebration on the 80th anniversary of that day, festooned with flags and bunting and with veterans feted like rockstars."
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US couple, 100 and 96, marry in Normandy, France: ‘We get butterflies’ | US news | The Guardian
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