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Posted on 06/07/2004 5:35:19 AM PDT by counterpunch
ARROMANCHES, France (AP) - With pride and tears for fallen comrades, Allied veterans joined world leaders in remembering the sacrifices of soldiers 60 years ago and the trans-Atlantic unity that overcame Adolf Hitler's tyranny in World War II.
Atop rocky cliffs over the town of Arromanches, President Bush and President Jacques Chirac of France used Sunday's glitzy commemoration of the Allied invasion on D-Day - June 6, 1944 - to reinvigorate relations damaged by differences over the Iraq war.
Fighter jets roared overhead and a naval vessel fired a 21-cannon salute in a display of military might to mark the day the most powerful armada in history brought 156,000 soldiers ashore for a battle that turned the tide of the war.
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