FOXNews.com: D-DAY ANNIVERSARY: Remembrance Kicks Off In France With Flag-Raising

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D-DAY ANNIVERSARY: Remembrance Kicks Off In France With Flag-Raising Jun 6th 2013, 14:49 Published June 06, 2013 Associated Press June 6, 2013: Members of the American Legion raise the U.S. flag at the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, western France on the day of the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the D-Day.AP June 6, 2013: Visitors walk among the 9,387 graves at the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, western France on the day of the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the D-Day.AP June 6, 2013: Roses are laid on one of the 9,387 graves at the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, western France, Thursday on the day of the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the D-Day.AP Next Slide Previous Slide COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France –  Commemorations of the 69th annniversary of D-Day have begun with the stars-and-stripes being raised in a quiet ceremony at the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach. Tourists, many from the U.S. and Britain, gathered in the still morning under a brilliant spring sky to witness the flag-raising amid the neat rows of thousands of white marble crosses and stars of David marking the graves of U.S. servicemen and women fallen in the Allied invasion of Normandy that began June 6, 1944. A full day of ceremonies including fireworks, concerts and marches is planned across Normandy Thursday in honor of the 150,000 troops, mainly US, British and Canadian, who risked or gave their lives in the liberation of German-occupied western Europe during World War II.

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