Honoring the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy

ABC News takes a look back at the events that occurred in Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which turned the course of World War II.
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[@Frankya92]

My uncle fought in Guadalcanal and a couple other battles in the pacific campaign. He died in 2017 and helped my parents legally migrate into this country in the 80’s. He had several medals, including Purple Hearts from fighting the Japanese. He was a very proud man and a very patriotic American. I’ll never forget the stories he would share with me. I’m grateful to have known him and grateful for these gentlemen also. May the price of freedom never be forgotten

[@bsulakersredsox]

Your uncle was a hero man. I'm super grateful for gentlemen like him and many others.

[@theo9976]

Here’s to the greatest generation whose lives are flickering into that twilight of time. To paraphrase Lincoln, what solemn pride that must be theirs to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. The America of the 21st century is forever grateful for their sacrifice.

[@Frankya92]

Beautifully said

[@charlesking5328]

Undoubtedly "The Greatest Generation" all the WWII veterans were extraordinary Americans.

[@camrynstout56]

God bless our veterans each and every. One of them.

[@jacquelinemiguez1326]

Many Americans think these soldiers were heroes for the USA, forgetting that they were heroes for Europe as well! Thank you for your service

[@ВалерийФ-ц1р]

Russians freed Europe from nazy Germany...learn the history one more time...

[@makeuthink2120]

Allies with the Soviet Union!

[@ВалерийФ-ц1р]

@@makeuthink2120 Complitly agreed....

[@justinaccount9920]

Heros for the entire world, honor them

[@Angel_Shyyy]

Salute 🫡 Thank you for your service.

[@susan29234]

Wow, this is incredible that you met with these soldiers on Utah beach David! You can see how much it meant to them that you got to know them and did that! I agree, if everyone understood the sacrifices they made then, we would all be closer.

[@jeffreyrule8143]

Thank you.

[@wazamanikurudi9649]

Upmost respect to these guys

[@AnastasiaMitsos]

God Bless to all Veterans!!! Salute ❤️ Thank you for your service!!!

[@pierredebug17]

Thank you from France

[@Tracy-os6un]

Thank you for your service for all of us that want to honor our veterans with love and respect let's all treat them with all the importance of our veterans and their lives saved us and being grateful for what they have done for our future

[@MsKitcloudkicker]

They were boys. Young and Brave! God Bless them. They don’t make guys like them anymore

[@tomcoates4022]

Band of Brothers showed how brutal

[@danny_27676]

most gave some,some gave all

[@ccdbcvtrider1]

I was so honored to be there during this beach interview. We couldn’t hear anything so finding this interview is wonderful. It was the best thing for my son to meet these men

[@madelinesalinda8446]

So amazing that these veterans have limpid memories most esp during the war, despite the long ( 8) decades past. Inch by inch, they can recall what happened during that dreadful event...the war. The impact was so great , it carried heavy loads not only to themselves but to their beloved families as well. I gazed at their faces as they tell the horrendous and nightmare of war...and they were spontaneous in revealing. I salute all the veterans...alive or gone who fought for LOVE OF COUNTRY.

[@luztavera6900]

Thank you so much for this. I love this.

[@freedom_rock18]

Gonna finish up saving private Ryan I one day want to go to Normandy. This beer is for yall! Thank you for your service!

[@michaelahass2695]

You're welcome in Normandy..seeing all these beaches, baring so much history..❤

[@wazamanikurudi9649]

We today wrapped in cotton wool have no idea of what these men endured.

[@valentinasoboleva8593]

Есть очень много интервью фронтовиков, их книг и фильмов о них и о Второй мировой войне, их надо с детства слушать, читать и смотреть. Они очевидцы, которые сами остановили жестокость и ужас фашизма и некрасивость войны. Ведь фашисты забирали жизни населений Земли. На Восток Евразии фашисты шли убивать всё население. Если американские фронтовики, говорят, что они воевали за Свободу, то наши фронтовики рассказывали, как они воевали за право существования наших народов, за семьи и за жизнь Человечества. Все это надо с молодых ногтей знать, понимать и уметь пресекать или останавливать. Этот канал пусть выложит всё интервью, ведь фронтовики рассказали о том, как фашисты из своих бетонных укрепов видел этих ребят как на ладошке и бесчеловечно бил по ним минами. Между прочим, точно так же нацистские войска Зеленского обстреливают гражданское население, которое не променяло Свободу на печеньки. Каждый день украинские нацисты-необандеровцы стреляют из американского, французского, чешского, итальянского, нидерландского, германского, датского вида вооружения, бомбы этих государств отнимают жизни у людей. Лицемерие первых лиц этих государств Бесчеловечно. Перед американскими фронтовиками лицемерно улыбаются и толкают речи те же самые фашисты. Больно смотреть на этот позорный обман.

[@vincently1995]

80 Years of D-Day

[@nigelkhan9278]

The only way this country will ever understand the sacrifice, the lives that were lost, is to make it mandatory for everyone to serve 2 years military service. Most people today don’t even know the significance of D-Day, the location or what war we fought. They do not know anything about the greatest generation of or lifetime and what they did to protect democracy. Sadly these men and women are getting to the end. We will lose the most important generation and I pray that the legacy will be kept alive. So many young men and women died away from home. The current generation is all about the TikTok, apps, social media content. They are oblivious to the significance of these men sacrifice and what they had to go through just to survive. Semper FI.

[@JonathanRiggall-ff2ym]

Woman dieing ?I don't know if that a thing in ww2 not anywhere near as many as men

[@valentinasoboleva8593]

Из-за того, что этих фронтовиков тогда и теперь держат в информационном вакууме, они не знают, что воевали они для защиты права на Жизнь Человечества. А держат их в информационном вакууме те, кто не дорожит Человечеством и развязывает войны, бомбит беззащитных людей американскими бомбами, в том числе ядерными и угрожает оборонительным силам других стран, ради разграбления их ресурсов. И это уже никакая не Демократия, дорогуша. Это уже Общественно опасная диктатура вооруженных разбойников, а их маска приличия уже не налазит на их хари. Да, многие приложения созданы для расчеловечивания людей.

[@AM-el4iv]

This video should have millions of views. Never forget the sacrificies of these heroes.

[@AlbertaleoAlbertalei]

Least we forget. Irminsul - Verden

[@Павел-ь2ш2с]

At the Tehran Conference in 1943, Stalin sent Roosevelt and Churchill each a case of Soviet champagne. In 1944, the Allies decided to open a Second Front.

[@michaelahass2695]

Fabulous to see this veterans , 80 years after, on these beaches.. A great generation of real HEROES, who fought for freedom against Hitlers terror. HEROES NEVER DIE, they're always alive in our hearts. As their legacy. GOD BLESS THEM and BRING PIECE for those who never made it home. Yes, freedom has a prize. Thank you is by far not enough..to tell them from FRANCE. MERCI ❤❤❤

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Just to remind our American friends, the vast majority of those involved in D-Day were British.

[@sophietand3240]

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not honor the memory of their ancestors are doomed to extinction. The unconditional act of surrender was signed by Marshal of the USSR Georgy Zhukov on May 8, 1945 in the suburbs of Berlin and the witnesses were signed by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, Marshal Arthur Tedder (Great Britain), General K. Spaats (USA) and General J. de Lattre de Tassigny (France).

[@willm678]

These guys are a different breed of men.

[@bnkundwa]

Brave men

[@ปราณีเดิมกลาง]

Now i no wants military have war never ever again. I just want all you have a beautiful life. Thanks you

[@GayleAllen-RINO]

THANK YOU NATO AND OUR SERVICE PEOPLE

[@eagleone-ff9lz]

Those veterans also has great faith, American last Godly generation, endured so many difficulties. Not like now Western soldiers strong bodies, well equipped, nutritious, well training but mentally spiritually broken, they forgot God. Very rarely WW2 veterans have PTSD, they fight more dangerous brutal and yet survive. So sad so many soldiers not even go to war and yet have ptsd.

[@stanleysodansky798]

Lest we forget. 😢🎉✌️

[@ปราณีเดิมกลาง]

Thanks you for military all history for anything saved safe life city God bless you all and God saved safe you all

[@woodyhayes7402]

Don’t ever forget this Europe!

[@makeuthink2120]

Yes. Fighting to help communism spread and strengthening the big banks. "You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest." - Winston Churchill

[@jerardnorgren3411]

Just like we Americans don't forget France joining the war against the King George and the British in our fight for independence in 1776. Without them we don't win that war.

[@grandcanyon-d4d]

What about the British and Canadians who helped?

[@charlesking5328]

Absolutely 👏

[@makeuthink2120]

Israel thanks you.

[@YahbiiCot]

I didnt know how long that beach really is. Those poor boys look like they had to run hundreds of yards to get off that beach.

[@weshardin6609]

The veterans said they didn't know what it was all about until they landed on the beach, so there weren't any volunteers. The Germans are in front, the sea behind, so what do you do?

[@m.eshaghi8181]

G-d bless America 🇺🇸

[@ronstephen72]

Today is the day to remember... that the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to an actual Nazi who fought against us during WWII.

[@charlesking5328]

Hard to believe

[@michaelahass2695]

​@@charlesking5328 They didn't know his dark past !

[@makeuthink2120]

He didn't fight against you. You fought against him. He did nothing to you.

[@michaelhoward8664]

Marvin Grant was there. He is now deceased.

[@alivstyson1864]

How do you HIDE that amount of equipment and that many men without the enemy findind out ?

[@Bier-money]

Deception and keeping it top secret. It was a huge undertaking

[@edwinpadilla856]

🥹👏🫡

[@valentinasoboleva8593]

Американские солдаты той поры, спасибо вам за союз с Красной Армией -- для защиты людских жизней от фашистов. Берегите себя, теперь вы нам нужны и для защиты людских жизней от фашистских приспешников -- бандеровцев.

[@rimafonaafin]

Звідкіля у європі намалювались ветерани 2 світової війни? Роблять по принципу росії? Ряжені ветерани? Чи тилові канцелярські помазані криси-орденоносці? А кажуть шапіто є тільки у росії.

[@michaelahass2695]

ENGLISH..If you want us to understand you..😊

[@rimafonaafin]

@@michaelahass2695