ST. LOUIS - People across the St. Louis area commemorated the 81st anniversary of D-Day on Friday.

"We really tell it through St. Louis voices. So St. Louis people who participated in the liberation and also who were liberated," Helen Turner said.

Turner is the Holocaust Museum Director of Education.

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"D-day really marks the turn in the war of the allies being able to push through into France and so really it is going to be the start of liberation. Certainly not the end, but the start liberation," she said.

While some people spent time at the museum learning about the liberation, others spent time at the Veterans Memorial Walk in O'Fallon.

"We come over to this memorial because it feels like a place we should be and we

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