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LIGHTNING PHOTOS: Community remembers D-Day

Marines Herb Spies, a Korea War veteran, and Bob Roubaud, a Pacific theater veteran of World War II, listen to Eisenhower's speech.

By Bill Moss, Published: June 6, 2014

Henderson County residents heard Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower famous D-Day message to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines about to embark on "a great crusade" — the Normandy invasion that would "bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world."

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