Runaway D-Day veteran receives 'overwhelming' 2500 birthday cards

"Anyone would think I'd defeated Hitler on my own."

Runaway D-Day veteran receives 'overwhelming' 2500 birthday cards

Remember that 90-year-old World War II veteran that ran away from his care home so he could attend the D-Day celebrations in Normandy on June 6th? Course you do.

Bernard Jordan made headlines when he showed up in France for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings after going missing from his care home in Sussex.

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