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(soft rhythmic music)

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- [Man] This place was
merely a point on a map

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for our paratroopers on
the night of 5 June, 1944.

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It was a piece of geography for which

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they would risk their lives.

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They boarded the aircraft knowing

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more than half would not return from here.

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This place is so much more
than a military objective now.

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Every year around this time,

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the grateful eyes of the
free and the hopeful,

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of those who wish to be free,
turn to Sainte-Mere-Eglise.

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The world looks here for calm

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in the storm of dangerous,
confusing world.

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The world looks here for example

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of the love that conquers hate.

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The world looks here to honor
this place and its moment,

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and that exactly what
we will do here today.

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(somber music)