Presidents Biden and Macron mark 80th anniversary of D-Day at American Cemetery

(6 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Colleville-sur-Mer, France - 6 June 2024
1. Wide of veterans being brought onto stage in wheelchairs at American cemetery
2. Various of veterans arriving for ceremony and being escorted to stage
3. Various of audience
4. Various of veterans on stage
5. Wide of stage
6. Wide of U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron and their wives walking on stage greeting veterans
7. Medium of veterans
8. Wide of Biden speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, U.S. President::
"On behalf of the American people and as commander in chief, it's the highest honor to be able to salute you here in Normandy once more. All of you. God love you." (turns around and salutes veterans)
10. Close-up of US flag
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, U.S. President::
"To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable. Were we to do that, it means we'd be forgetting what happened here on these hallowed beaches. Make no mistake, we will not bow down. We will not forget."
12. Wide of audience
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, U.S. President:
"The price of unchecked tyranny is the blood of the young and the brave. In their generation, in their hour of trial, the Allied forces of D-Day did their duty. Now the question for us is: in our hour of trial, will we do ours? We are living in a time when democracy is more at risk across the world than at any point since the end of World War II, since these beaches were stormed in 1944."
14. Medium of audience
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Macron, French President:
"Here you came to join our efforts with our own soldiers and to make France a free nation. And you are back here today, at home, if I may say." (UPSOUND of applause)
16. Veterans, Macron and Biden as Taps is played
17. Wide of stage as ceremony ends

STORYLINE:
U.S. President Joe Biden and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, addressed crowds gathered at the American Cemetery in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Standing alongside Macron, Biden addressed the ever-dwindling number of D-Day veterans personally, saluting them during his speech.

D-Day was the largest amphibious assault in history and Biden said the struggle between dictatorship and freedom was unending and continued today.

Leaders, veterans and visitors from around the world on Thursday paid tribute to the D-Day generation in moving ceremonies on and around the Normandy beaches where the Allies landed exactly 80 years ago.

AP Video by Nicolas Garriga and Srdjan Nedeljkovic
Production by Helena Alves and Theodora Tongas

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