D-Day last living links recount memories on Normandy’s beaches

Around 200 veterans attended this year’s D-Day event in Normandy, the youngest in their 90s and some over 100.

BÉNOUVILLE, France — The anniversary of D-Day is celebrated annually with solemn ceremonies and grand re-enactments. But this year — the hugely symbolic 80th anniversary since that day of days — it may be the last major milestone for many veterans to recount in their own words the sheer brutality of that pivotal battle.

Around 200 veterans attended this year’s event, the youngest in their 90s and some over 100. And an unavoidable truth, mostly unspoken this week across Normandy, is that the next five-year anniversary will almost certainly look very different.

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