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Liberated on june 61944. so it's a huge, big deal. the defense of democracy, the defense of freedom. these are not just empty words anymore. it's not just a nice commemoration and a celebration of the heroes who are left standing. it is really everything at stake. if the international rules of the road that the united states really lead after the end of world war ii are to continue. >> i know one of the veterans that you are going to be speaking with, someone used spoke with five-years ago. tell us about so his name is jake larson, who's now over 100-years-old, about 101. he's become guess a t...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead

1944. so it's a huge, big deal. the defense of democracy, the defense of freedom. these are not just empty words anymore. it's not just a nice commemoration and a celebration of the heroes who are left standing. it is really everything at stake. if the international rules of the road that the united states really lead after the end of world war ii are to continue i know one of the veterans that you are going to be speaking with, someone you spoke with five-years ago, tell us about so his name is jake larson, who's now over 100-years-old, about 101. >> he's become guesswork, a tiktok star in th...

Standing. it is really everything at stake. if the international rules of the road that the united states really lead after the end of world war ii are to continue. >> i know one of the veterans that you are going to be speaking with, someone you spoke with five years ago, tell us about it. >> so his name is jake larson, who's now over 100-years-old, about 101. he's become guesswork a tiktok star in the last several years. and that is because he is teaching generations who are obviously much younger to understand what happened and what he and his company raids did 80 years ago. now, we're hopi...

Important guests on this day, the men who stormed the beaches, the fighter pilots, those onboard the ships just off the shoreline here, and those marked by these whitehead stones, the ones who never left. they line up in formation and most can't march or stand at attention anymore. still they move through this battlefield turned graveyard memorial, a visit that brings with it memories of their first trip here 80 years ago. >> i'm reliving on d-day. staff sergeant jake larson landed on the beach his unit peppered with machine gunfire as they scrambled to combat positions. larson somehow making ...