A tribute to the veterans of the 29th Division

The municipality of Vierville-sur-Mer, the American army and the alumni association of the 29th Infantry Division organized a ceremony together on a Sunday morning. When asked by Jean-Marie Oxéant asking who was present at the same place fifty-five years earlier, several veterans stood up, warmly applauded by the public.

The mayor affirmed the will to continue with the children the memory work of the GIs. He evoked the reception of veterans, exhibitions, erection and maintenance of steles, as well as the twinning between Bedford and the eleven municipalities of the Omaha area as a means of transmitting this memory.

After the interventions of Major General Carrol Childers, commander of the 29th Division, and Major General Gordon Stump, president of the Alumni Association, the children of the Trévières school sang under the direction of Jacques Heleine. In particular, they performed Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" in English, an attention appreciated by veterans.

To thank the mayor and the municipality, the Association of Alumni of the 29th Division offered a book devoted to this unit, entitled "Let's go 29".

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