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I know you've gotten to talk with some people you followed a group of students that came there to study with a veteran, and see firsthand what happened in history. mike made a point earlier about how he did not know if he would have had the courage as any of us would certainly wonder about ourselves, have the courage to do what all of these heroes that are gathered today whom we honor and whom we pay tribute to did, and you had some interesting reaction when you talked to young kids. i mean i think, don't they wonder that about themselves as well? >> yes, exactly, alex. they do. this was a ver...

Watching it i could clearly identify with it because i grew up in a home where we all lived together and my grandmother was a gold star mother whose son, zwrer gerald, died two years earlier on june 6th, 1942, at the battle of midway and every day of her life, if i can get through this every day of her life she thought that gerald would come up the street and come home but alex the stories are numerous and we have them for you. >> you sure do. i tell you, it's hard to keep a dry eye. i know tom had difficulty getting through that telling that story. >> oh yes. don't get me started. >> i know, ...

Rangers coming up the point du hoc, the 100 sheer cliff thinking to themselves they're coming up after us they're coming up this after us. he said they were probably more frightened than we were. >> and with good reason and a lot of them were conscripts alex. >> yes, they were. gentlemen, we're so glad to have you there. we'll take a very short break. everyone, do stay with us. we'll have more coverage of the 70th anniversary of d-day. portion of president franklin delano roosevelt's d-day prayer he delivered on the radio >> almighty god, our sons pray upon this day of set upon a mighty endeav...

Quantify it in some ways. they'd been trained to do missions. they knew how many people had been left behind. when they came in they didn't talk about the war in part because they wanted to talk about their new life they wanted to talk about their future and how they could have a life that they never anticipated they would, and so they give back to us i think, every day in that sense, mike? >> frank devita is one of many, many stories, alex that are represented here today in the dwindling numbers of veterans who were here 70 years ago. there are 9,386 headstones behind us 9,386 stories of youn...

Least 2,000 french civilians were killed in the first 24 hours and the resistance was critically important in terms of identifying where communication lines were and rail lines were. the president of france ten years ago when we were here president at that time was president chirac and he had a big difference with president george bush 43 over the war in iraq so times have changed, although these two presidents don't always see the world the same way either >> no. >> and in fact only last night, alex they were distinct differences over how to handle vladimir putin with hollande being welcoming...