D-Day veteran Harold Terens, 100, marries in Normandy

D-Day veteran Harold Terens, of Lake Worth, Florida, returned to Carentan, Normandy, to marry Jeanne Swerlin 80 years after the Allied invasion in World War II.

CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France — Almost 80 years to the day after it was engulfed in a bloody D-Day battle, the French town of Carentan was this weekend the scene of an improbable love story.

Harold Terens, 100, was part of the Allied forces that staged the epic invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. On Saturday, he married Jeanne Swerlin, 96, just five miles from the marshy coastline of Utah Beach where tens of thousands of those troops landed.

“It’s the best day of my life,” said Terens, of Lake Worth, Florida, dressed in a pale blue suit adorned with his war medal.

“It’s not just for young people, love, you know?” added Swerlin, wearing a pink dress and being clutched by her beau. “We get butterflies. And we get a little action, also.”

Terens, who served in France during the war, returned to the Normandy area for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.Win McNamee / Getty ImagesTheir wedding party was equally no ordinary affair.

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