The 80th anniversary events for the D-Day landings in France have been very moving, recalling an incredible moment in history and made particularly special by the presence of the few surviving veterans who had managed to travel - mostly aged over 100 by now but for whom the memories and the emotion were clearly still fresh.
More French civilians died than Allied troops in the weeks around D-Day, mostly killed during the aerial bombardment that destroyed Caen, Cherbourg and many other towns in northern France. They deserve to be remembered too.
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