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1 posted on 06/06/2019 5:36:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Arlette Gondrée was a four-year old girl that day, and she has grown old with the teen-and-twenty soldiers who liberated her home and her town. But she is now the proprietress of the family café, and she has been there every June to greet those who return each year in dwindling numbers:

That's the late Bill Bray and the late John Woodthorpe with Mme Gondrée on the seventieth anniversary.

2 posted on 06/06/2019 5:39:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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You see more American flags around Normandy these days than you do in many parts of the US.


6 posted on 06/06/2019 8:09:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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