D-Day The Price Of Freedom
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Narrated by Peter Kessler. Five D-Day veterans returned to France decades after landing on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Each has his own unique story,, and they take us to the places where they fought and where the memories remain all too vivid, even to this very day. In their journey, they visit the American cemetery in Normandy and meet up with French schoolchildren, who remind these aging men that what they did so long ago remains very important to them. An emotional tribute to the day the liberation of western Europe began.
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