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and here in new york city 80 years later. here we have the president and first lady walking through the american cemetery and laying the wreath and honoring the heroes who made history on d-day. we ll take you through the next couple of hours together on this. welcome to america s newsroom, i m bill hemmer, dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, viewers and you these historical moments are important. 80 years since that day. so we have the first lady and the president in normandy. the president and first lady in france. we have a lot of the ceremony to come and you are going to have a chance to hear from macron as well. bill: we have a lot of great guests to get to relive the moments from 80 years ago with you. thank you for being here as we begin our broadcast. dana: we had just witnessed an extraordinary ceremony and a military band playing taps in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice ....
Jumped into d-day the day before his 16th birthday. i said well, how did you get in the fight? he said i was big for my age, grew up in kentucky, his dad a coal miner and said if you want to fight, go fight. his dad signed the papers attesting he was 18 years old. he jumped into normandy with 101st at the age of 16. they were dropped out of the zone, partnered up with some others from the 86th airborne similarly out of place, and spent seven days fighting their way back to the beach head moving at night in german-occupied ceremony. his storys emblematic of all of them. these were teenagers. teenagers and they saved the world. dana: such a pivotal moment ....