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Fourteen date for the french as wellas for americans every year

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in epping all American cemetery.They gathered to remember those

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who died in world war two that thisyear local DMC and that went

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in stepmother laying flowers onthe graves of the soldiers they

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sponsor he had still to them adoptedby the for the local people.

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The realize that that many americanswill never had the opportunity

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to come here and in on a their lovedone that hurts scour someone's.

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It headstone searching for theirsoldier Jocelyn ratio started

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when just a few graves but calledon others to join and and then

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I thought you faldo that ninty somefrench people would be interested

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in doing this. So three weeks ago.I brought to newspaper at

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that person here to join and eastand I started the campaign

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source a weeks after we have alreadyone hand lead their sponsors

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father graves.

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Clods shield do lover teased townwhen devastated during the

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war and she answered the call to honorthose who helped to liberate

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it on the figure was the a big thatwe also as they have parents

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and grandparents who we're soldiers.

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And so that they want that to participatein these crusading

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these quest.

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Head to their I know an Americanforward and those.

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Yes. At than all-american cemeteryis the final resting place

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that five thousand two hundred andfifty five American soldiers

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than the airmen Jocelyn doesn't oneeven one of those to be forgotten.

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It's rewarding. I wish I would.

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We know door and put flowers andall the blazers the The french

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people still remember the efforts ofthe soldiers who liberated them.

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So long ago and for those the bestin europe it's a chance to

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pay our respects that the twentyone American cemeteries across

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europe and africa.

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And with American battle monumentcommission. We had the honor of.

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Of being here in and caring forthese graves and making sure

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that these cemeteries.

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Are place that and when every Americancome to they will feel

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extremely proud to be an American.

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This is from thirty soldiers elevenall will visit to date throughout

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the year watching over themhas made racked in keath.

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I'm a surgeon Abigail walter at happenall American cemetery prayer..

