WWII veterans mark the 78th anniversary of D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy
Veteran Charles Shay, a 98-year-old Penobscot Native American, from Indian Island, Maine, remembered those who were killed on D-Day: 'I have never forgotten them and I know that their spirits are here'. Mr Shay, who now lives in Normandy, was a 19-year-old Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.
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