The phrase as the world prepares to remember dday, and American Veterans make one more trip to the east shores. Nightly news begins now. This is nbc nightly news with Brian Williams reporting tonight from normandy. And good evening from the u. S. Military cemetery here on the bluffs above omaha beach on the coastline of france. Sacred ground, the resting place of 10,000 souls, 70 years ago tonight, u. S. Paratroopers were beginning the mission to drop into the french countryside, followed of course the next morning by the largest sea born invasion in military history. It was a turning point in the war and for the free world and many of the vets able to make the trip are back here one more time and will be telling their stories the next two nights. We begin here tonight with a member of the u. S. Military in the news. When Americans First heard that Bowe Bergdahl was being released after five years as the only american held behind enemy lines in afghanistan, it was greeted as good news,