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badge there. it is a red ribbon. the badge is a. and there is an effigy of the republic and on the reverse, two tricolour flag surrounded by the motto, which i mentioned earlier, honour and fatherland. as you can see, president macron is pinning the legion of honour on the left hand side, that is where it belongs and is worn. he speaks french in more recent times, the legion of honour has changed and adapted to society. it now recognises more and
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a decade ago on the 70th anniversary of d day the french president announced that the legion d honneur would be awarded to all british veterans who fought for the liberation of france during the second world war. it is france s highest distinction, and is awarded in recognition of both military and civilian merit, and later, he will award the same legion d honneur, christian lamb, a wartime wren, who drew d day maps. she knew the names in advance.
d day was the moment the free world learned that the liberation of western europe had begun. enslaved and occupied peoples heard on the radio that this moment had come. it had been long expected but no one knew where or when the invasion force would come. in fact hitler personally believed it would be to the east at the pas de calais and that history s largest armada was in fact a diversion. let s see if we can watch this moment all the award of the legion d honneur to bettering wren, christian lamb, from the french president. to our bettering wren. veteran wren.
injust a moment veteran, talking to the king. now, in just a moment we will see the event come to a close here, and it still possible, we think, that the president will award the legion d honneur, and i m looking at the crowd, for the face of the woman who will be receiving it christian lamb, and here, iscour the will be receiving it christian lamb, and here, i scour the faces for a woman i was privileged to meet. she was a wren who helped to draw the d day maps, meaning that she had the names of the beaches in advance.