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The Latest: Normandy crowds want to preserve D-Day memories

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The Latest on the 75th anniversary of D-Day (all times local): 7:55 a.m. Many people commemorating D-Day’s 75th anniversary worry…
The Latest on the 75th anniversary of D-Day (all times local):
7:55 a.m.
Many people commemorating D-Day’s 75th anniversary worry that the sacrifices of the pivotal World War II invasion are being forgotten.
And that’s why they gathered at dawn Thursday all along Normandy’s landing beaches, holding flags, staring into the waves or thinking of the first waves of soldiers falling in the hail of German fire on June 6,1944.
Richard Clapp, a 44-year-old former U. S. paratrooper and computer store owner from Julian, North Carolina, says: “If you forget history, it is doomed to repeat itself.

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