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Image now one of the veterans who has been at the memorial ceremony here and this is the kind of reception they have all been having from local people, very, very moving here in arromanches. and there have been about 15 or so veterans in wheelchairs attending this is a ready and some others that are more mobile have been meeting and greeting and everywhere it has been a touching moment because people have wanted to shake hands to say thank you and the veterans have been delighted to be part of it as well and you have seen that he welling up in people's eyes and it really has been quite somethi...

An edited version of the programme has been uploaded to BBC iPlayer.

An edited version of the programme has been uploaded to BBC iPlayer.

Before the ceremony, the New Orleans high school marching band cut loose with a powerful rendition of 'Sailing Away.' But they also took time to pray at gravesites.

ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France - With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after the allied landing that started the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. Read more at straitstimes.com.