{"id":161193,"date":"2024-06-21T06:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T06:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=161193"},"modified":"2024-06-21T06:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T06:02:43","slug":"the-last-wwii-vets-converge-on-normandy-for-d-day-and-fallen-friends-and-to-cement-their-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=161193","title":{"rendered":"The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) \u2014 Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day. 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