Schoolchildren and veterans gathered to throw flowers into the sea

After a meeting in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, students from the Trévières school found veterans in Vierville-sur-Mer. The ceremony, organized under the aegis of the Landing Committee, brought together its president, Admiral Christian Brac de la Perrière, Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant and three American veterans.

Arden Earll, 83, Samuel Krauss, 90, and William Doyle, 93, answered the children's questions. They also patiently lent themselves to the requests for autographs and photographs from the collectors and enthusiasts present.

After a deposit of wreaths at the US National Guard memorial, installed on WN 72 above the beach of Omaha, the children participated in raising the flags. The group then won the pier, from where the students symbolically threw bouquets into the sea.

As in Saint-Laurent and Colleville, schoolchildren were also able to get into a duck, an amphibious vehicle that was used for the landing of supplies and equipment. The meeting thus combined transmission of memory, tribute to the dead and discovery of the equipment of the time.

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