One U.S. D-Day veteran's return to Normandy: "We were scared to death"

Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France — The word "hero" is overused. But if not for the courage of the few remaining D-Day survivors and their friends who fell as they launched the fight to oust Adolf Hitler's Nazi German forces from France 80 years ago, there would have been no celebrations this week in Normandy.

With each passing year, living testimony of the hell those Allied forces endured in the name of freedom is fading.

"We cannot allow what happened here to be lost in the years that come," President Biden said Thursday at a D-Day memorial event in the Normandy American Cemetery, where more than 9,300 fallen U.S. troops are buried.