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High style >> reporter: for tom rice, the feeling before parachuting 7,500 feet above the earth is a familiar one, and one h welcomed again to celebrate his 100th birthday. >> i like to jump, it gives you a new vision of so many things that 90% of the people will never be able to see. >> reporter: this jump far different than the one he took in 1944 over the normandy countryside in german-occupied france in a prelude to the d-day invasion a few years ago he re-created that jump, returning to france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the invasion where i was lucky enough to meet some of the...

Although 3 fourths of thousands of civilians who lost their lives and who i have not forgotten we owe more to medals and war that is really what we owe you is to show ourselves worthy of the heritage of peace that you have left us. that worthy of the promise of normandy. being worthy of the promise of normandy means never forgetting that free peoples defeat when they join forces can sum out any adversity so true against barbarism it would never have been possible without the decisive support of the united stout's without the millions of committed men and women without the support of the americ...

Alive from the emerald shorts crimsoned by the shed blood france has not forgotten the 2000000 soldiers. so. i'm going to be very who at the end of this longest day would continue fighting long for weeks to free the towns and villages of normandy and would go through the hell of a combat in the normandy countryside which was even more treacherous than the combat on the beaches on the heart of my country on behalf of brands i bow down before their bravery. if you see my bow down before the immense sacrifice of the 37000 killed the 19000 reported missing who died as heroes in normandy between ju...

Freedom. they are your brothers in arms. they are those who you attempted to save. you volunteered to take part in the second omaha wave. on the sixth on 6 june you put yourself at great risk to remove the wounded from the beach under the hail of german fire. the brothers in arms with whom you fought from omaha beach right through to belgium on the way participating in the battle of karen's and and the breakthrough that would free the region. your brothers in arms, those who you accompanied through the treacherous normandy countryside, you who fought nonstop from the seventh 7 june

Awards. we peace that you have left us, our debt worthy of the promise of normandy. being worthy of the promise of normandy means never forgetting the free peoples, when they join forces, can surmount any adversity. the victory against barberrism would never have been possible without the decisive support of the united states. without the mitted men and women without the support of the american people and american industry. on the beaches of the channel in the green normandy countryside and the highest levels of the military the armed forcesy forcs were united. the royal air force assisted the...