BBCNEWS BBC News June 6, 2021 13:12:00
It was a small gathering at ver—sur—mer, but the significance and the emotion of the moment were lost on no one. here at the normandy memorial, there's finally a place — and a place of great beauty — where, for future generations, british commemorations of d—day and the normandy campaign will have single focus. because of covid, virtually no veterans were in france. instead, in rather less clement weather, many of them gathered at the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire and watched the ceremony via a live transmission, including a message from the prince of wales. i could on...