Deep Respect pays tribute to veteran David A. Nelson

For the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Landing, the Deep Respect association welcomed American and British veterans around the ceremonies of June 6. David A. Nelson, who landed at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 at the age of twenty-seven, was to participate and receive the insignia of the Legion of Honor of Admiral Brac de la Perrière, during a ceremony organized by Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant.

Aged ninety-four and never returned to France, he had finally declined the invitation, fearing too much emotion. His son then warned those responsible for the association of the rapid deterioration of his health.

They left immediately for Florida and were able to give him his decoration before his death at the end of July. The badges and certificate were to be officially given to his son by the French consulate in New York, at the annual meeting of Big Red One veterans in Buffalo. The cut was published on August 12, 2011.

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