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John, how the devil are you? We need to go separated then. We almost did. We showed here how hard it is to link up.

Yes, I should say to we're a Pegasus Bridge. It's absolutely pollulating with people.

Every other person is in a je, which is very much de rigor in Normandy an anniversary week,

or wearing 100 first airborne kit. There's a bit more British airborne.

Yeah, closer to here.

On show today. But it's absolutely teeming isn't it? Anyway, the Pegasus bridge was up and we were trying to get a you know I was on the north side on the Benaville side

No, it's not the north side. I should say it's the western side you were on the east side. We were waving one another but then the bridge came so yeah, so the British came down linked up with the Americans and here we are I mean

This is crazy. Yeah, but come on so John

Eightieth anniversary thoughts. What are you what are you doing over here?

Yeah, how do you think it's important that we commemorate, you know, these decade moments?

Yeah, so I'm here with the World War II Museum.

I'm 80th anniversary D.A. cruise.

And we've been popping up and down the coast

from Hamburg to Amsterdam.

We went over to England for two days

to look at the 8 eighth Air Force airfields.

We went to, oh gosh, Dunkirk yesterday.

I actually personally went to Vimy Ridge,

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