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The loneliest of D-Day remembrances is hit by pandemic

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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER – COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, FranceAt daybreak on Saturday, Charles Shay stood lonesome without any fellow veteran on the very same beach where he waded ashore 76 years ago, part of one of the most epic battles in military historic that came to be known as D-Day and turned the tide of World War II.Compared to last year, when many tens of thousands came to the northern French beaches of Normandy to cheer the dwindling number of veterans and celebrate three quarters of a century of liberation from Nazi oppression, the coronavirus lockdown turned this year's remembrance into one of the eeriest ever. “I am very sad now," said Shay, who was a 19-year-old U.S.

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