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Didnt talk about what they saw in world war ii for a good 40 to 50 years, many of them. and then, for whatever reason, in older age, these stories just came pouring out of them. because they do want people to remember. they want people to understand mostly the sacrifice of their friends who are buried here behind me. 9837 of them. and you walk by these crosses and where are they from? idaho, south dakota, new jersey, pennsylvania, they stretch all across the united states of america. and it is a...

Metropolitan has to a child what looks like forever of crosses and grave markers to give them a sense of what has been paid for them. we can all do that. >> steve: department of homeland security, and general counsel at the air force and department of defense and you have worked with these people and lloyd austin, you work with him. what happened back then, 80 years ago is personal. you have two uncles who were tuskegee airmen. >> yes, and another was in famed golden 13, first black officers in ...

Reflection now. if you turned around and walked through the cemetery behind you, it is remarkable. i have had the good fortune of being there, too. it strikes me so much when you see the star of david headstones and then you see all the others that are in a rectangular square shape. i look at the states where they came from and sometimes you come upon brothers that are buried right next to each other. there is at least 40 pairs of brothers who were killed that day. >> thats right. i did exactly ...

>> i was in it from the beginning. i lost some great friends. all those people out there with the crosses, unmarked graves are our true heroes. >> dana: reflections on heroisms. today is the 80th anniversary of d-day. people sacrificed so much in liberating europe. were fortunate to have martha maccallum in normandy joining us today and in-house historian on all these things. i want to play sound. you had a chance to interview a world war ii veteran. lets listen here. >> the only ones that can u...

These are some of the last remaining survivors of world war ii that are showing up, this is probably going to be the last big anniversary when we do have survivors. they are all 100 years and more. so the job of remembering the sacrifices from those days, the job of remembering what happened during world war ii, how we got there now falls to our generation t falls to us, the memory of it falls to us so we can remind everybody else of what they did and why war is so horrible and why war should be...

>> reporter: i have to tell you it was a somber and emotional day here today, and, katy, what an honor and a privilege its been for me over the week to spend some time with these american heroes. im struck by what one of the d-day survivors said to me today. he pointed out at these crosses, tears in his eyes, and he said, these guys, they were 17, 18, 19 years old. they didnt get to have families. he said, i had a family. i got to live this long life because of their sacrifice. and he wanted to ...

Lady jill biden. what we noticed on one of the crosses. and the remarkable exchange here between president zelenskyy today and a world war ii veteran, who told zelenskyy, "you are a savior of the people." zelenskyy said, "no, you saved europe." but we begin tonight with our exclusive interview with president biden. ukraine, russia. the president closing the u.s./mexico border. i asked him, why not sooner? the president on donald trumps guilty verdict. and on his own son hunter bidens trial. i as...

And his memory of d-day. god bless him and god bless you and your family. thank you. well get to our coverage now. the international ceremony for the 80th anniversary of d-day landings at omaha beach is actually unfolding at this moment. many heads of state and world leaders are at that ceremony including president biden. our martha maccallum, anchor and executive editor of "the story" is in normandy and there this morning. we got to see so many of those world war ii veterans were blessed to hav...

The war, you came home. >> and every time i look at a row of crosses like that i think of the men that didnt, no doubt. this morning they did the 21 gun salute with three guns and seven shots each and had me thinking as it does every time the one i remember is seven guns and three shots each in the gravel in a remote base in iraq remembering a brother we lost in battle. everything we have in this nation came with a price. we remember june 6th because of the massive price of that day. by any meas...

Urged americans to kill that bipartisan border funding deal. here we are, and the white house is saying that it needs to take action now, and you mentioned some of the details here that once the crossings of port of entry cross 500, it will give the president action to temporarily shut down the border, and remain closed until the average illegal crossings go back to 1,500, and a it is impeachment and trump tried to do the same thing with similar restrictions in 2018, but he was struck down by th...