Veterans honor those they served with at DC’s WW2 Memorial

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The Nazis couldn’t stop them back then, and so the cold air and biting, constant wind blowing across the National Mall wasn’t going to stop them Tuesday.

A group of World War II veterans were among those on hand at the World War II Memorial to lay a wreath in commemoration of Veterans Day.

Standing up at 100 years old was Col. Frank Cohn, who was born in Germany and fled the Nazis as a teenager. Years later, he returned to fight them in World War II as a member of the U.S. Army.

“It’s a remembrance of all the people who didn’t get through the war, the ones who were killed,” Cohn said. “We have to … memorialize them, because they did everything to even give their lives to the freedom that we wanted, and this