leaders who have come to normandy to remember the fallen, to praise the veterans who are still alive and do other who are there and to talk about the enduring struggle between democracy and dictatorship. just got a glimpse there of the beach, one of the beaches, that is omaha beach, one of the five beaches where the troops landed. smiles from president macron the host of all of this. and prince william who has been, as i was mentioning in arromanches and very much at the heart of these d day commemorative events.
earlier we spent the day with the royal marines, part of the official army, navy led part of the commemorations and the royal marines following in the commemorations of their forebears, following in the commemorations of theirforebears, the following in the commemorations of their forebears, the 47 commando who arrived just beside arromanches and were on that lighting craft with peaceful, beautiful surroundings and a welcoming committee on the beach. landing craft. the poignancy of the contrast between that and the hellish shelling and mayhem that accompanied the men who arrived at exactly the same time 80 years ago it was something we all felt. and exactly the same time 80 years ago it was something we all felt. and we think we are it was something we all felt. and we think we are just it was something we all felt. and we think we are just about it was something we all felt. and we think we are just about to it was something we all felt. and we think we are just about to he
image now one of the veterans who has been at the memorial ceremony here and this is the kind of reception they have all been having from local people, very, very moving here in arromanches. and there have been about 15 or so veterans in wheelchairs attending this is a ready and some others that are more mobile have been meeting and greeting and everywhere it has been a touching moment because people have wanted to shake hands to say thank you and the veterans have been delighted to be part of it as well and you have seen that he welling up in people s eyes and it really has been quite something and at the end of that service of about an hour which has concluded, we were addressed by the mayor of arromanches and lourdes done it, the chief of general staff, and they remembered the events of 80 years ago and the mayor said something