Tears flow on pilgrimage for lost friends

VISITORS to war cemeteries can rarely fail to be moved.

Mon, 07 Jun, 2004 - 01:00
Pat Hurst

And yesterday in Bayeux thousands of British D-Day veterans choked back their emotions in a moving pilgrimage to honour lost friends.

They had come to pay their respects in a service to commemorate the Normandy landings, attended by Queen Elizabeth II, French president Jacques Chirac and British prime minister Tony Blair.

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