As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it will rise again Thursday over the Normandy beaches where the waves long ago washed away the blood and boot-steps of its soldiers, but where their exploits that helped end Adolf Hitler's tyranny are being remembered by the next generations, seeing war again in Europe, in Ukraine.
The break of dawn almost eight decades exactly after Allied troops waded ashore under hails of gunfire on five code-named beaches Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword will kick off a day of remembrance by Allied nations now standing together again behind Ukraine and with World War II ally Russia not invited by host France. It cited Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine that has intensified in recent weeks for the snub.
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