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here on these hallowed beaches. us veterans were presented by president macron with the legion d honneur, france s highest honour. modern day geopolitics loom really large over these d day commemorations, but the world leaders gathered here don t mean any disrespect. those valiant veterans who have managed to come here to normandy know all too well the dangers of aggressive nationalism and the politics of hate. the freedom and peace they fought so hard for is fracturing. normandy resident danielle boucherie was five years old on d day. her village amongst the first to be liberated in the early hours the morning. translation: i went to sleep under german rule and woke up with the americans. danielle s mum made her a star spangled dress out of us service men s parachutes found
that s all from me here, let s go back to sophie now in normandy. there was a wonderful moment here. at the end of the service here this morning, the french president awarded one of the veterans france s highest honour the legion d honneur. he called her one of the heroes of the shadows. christian lamb worked in whitehall herjob was to map the coastline right here so that allied troops would know where they were when they came ashore. she s almost 104 and didn t think she would make it today but as she told me this morning that changed at the last minute. christian lamb, congratulations on your brand new award, the legion d honneur. that must have been quite a moment. you were presented it by president macron. well, it s very nice of you to say so. i m very proud of it. it s a very unusual and unexpected treat.
honour, one of the most famous in the world. it does not include any financial or material benefit, however, it does include an awful lot of pride for those who receive it. the legion of honour has 79,000 members, and on average around 2000 french and 300 foreigners are decorated with it each year. i don t know if we can see. we don t need to take i don t know if we can see. we don t need to take the i don t know if we can see. we don t need to take the strap i don t know if we can see. we don t need to take the strap down. sorry. we can see the colour of the badge there. it is a red ribbon. the
made it clear why russia s president wasn t welcome. to surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable. applause were we to do that, it means we d be forgetting what happened here on these hallowed beaches. us veterans were presented by president macron with the legion d honneur, france s highest honour. modern day geopolitics loom really large over these d day commemorations, but the world leaders gathered here don t mean any disrespect. those valiant veterans who have managed to come here to normandy know all too well the dangers of aggressive nationalism and the politics of hate. the freedom and peace they fought so hard for is fracturing. normandy resident danielle boucherie was five years old on d day, her village amongst the first
who my colleague spoke to earlier. but here he is presenting the legion of honour to those us veterans sat there. some of them are covered in blue blankets, because even though it is a relatively sunny and baystate, it must be difficult to sit in one place for a long time. and dry day. as i spoke earlier to my colleague, he said it s a tradition of the french to give the legion of honour to those veterans who fought in normandy and as my colleague also said, those elections from france, unfortunately, sadly, are no longer with us. the last french veteran sadly passed away. those who are left, those who survived, dropped through the war and who lived the 80 years to today. let s have a listen to what is