OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth defending.

What You Need To Know • The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago • World War II veterans have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth defending • They are now mostly centenarians • A group of nearly two dozen veterans who served in Europe and the Pacific is commemorating the fallen this week in Normandy

In what they acknowledge may be one of their last hurrahs, a group of nearly tw

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