WILKES-BARRE — Friday, June 6, 2025, marked the 81st anniversary of D Day.

Did you forget?

That’s the point — we must never forget.

The Times Leader ran a page-one story on Friday that carried this headline:

“These stories will go on.”

They will because they must go on — we must never forget what our veterans did in battle in all wars.

The Associated Press story was both eye-opening and compelling, as it told of a ceremony in Normandy, France, that was attended by U.S. veterans who fought on D Day and who now, for the most part, are near or past 100 years of age.

Here are a few excerpts from the AP story:

“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,

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