OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) – President Donald Trump is praising the veterans of D-Day, saying they are “among the very greatest Americans who will ever live.”
Trump spoke in France at the Normandy American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, near Omaha Beach, where the Americans landed on June 6, 1944.
Trump said that on that day -75 years ago- 10,000 men sacrificed their lives not only for their fellow troops and their countries, but for the “survival of liberty.”
Trump says the ground the allied forces captured during the invasion “won back this ground for civilization.”
French President Macron has told American D-Day veterans that “France doesn’t forget” their sacrifice for his country’s liberty.
Marking 75 years since the epochal invasion of Normandy, Macron told a gathering of veterans and families of those fallen: “On behalf of my nation I just want to say thank you.”
He said the words in English, and World War II veterans gathered with him at the Normandy American Cemetery stood in applause.
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