President Trump reads a 1944 prayer that President Franklin Roosevelt delivered in a radio address on June 6, 1944 as world leaders gather in southern England to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Queen Elizabeth II has given an unusually personal thank you to veterans for their sacrifice during the D-Day invasion.
British Prime Minister Theresa May read from a letter written by Capt. Norman Skinner of the Royal Army Service Corps to his wife, Gladys, on June 3, 1944, a few days before the invasion. He was killed the day after D-Day. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau read from the Victoria Cross citation of Lt. Col. Cecil Merritt, the first Canadian to be awarded the medal for gallantry for his leadership during the raid on Dieppe in 1942.To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, President Donald Trump has read a prayer that President Franklin Roosevelt delivered in a radio address June 6, 1944.
Silence descended as the presentation began. Trump and the other dignitaries stood and applauded as a small cadre of the elderly veterans took the center of the stage. “What happened to me is not important. I’m not a hero. I served with men who were. I’m very lucky I’m a survivor,” he said.The skies are bright and the weather favorable for jumps by close to 200 parachutists over one of the battle sites of the D-Day landings.
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