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As an update from the 2019 75th D-Day anniversary in Normandy, this was sent to me by Mayor Terry Renaud of Pretot-Saint-Suzanne. There was a ceremony on the 79th anniversary 06/06/2023 at Pretot featuring my father. Interesting.



The reenactment groups have become so involved in this every 6th of June that you'll see the French tri-color veterans replaced by 508th PIR reenactors with precise uniform regalia. I'm told it's now impossible to get reservations in Normandy for next year for the 80th. Shades of our Civil War reenactments and Gettysburg.



I was substitute teaching a history class at a Northern Virginia Junior High School recently. One of the kids asked how old was I. I said, "I was born 2 days after D-Day; can you figure it out." Dead silence...finally one kid snapped his fingers and said "World War II, right?"