D Day veterans gather in France for 60th anniversary ceremonies
British and French leaders honor fallen comrades at Bayeux and Pointe du Hoc as aging veterans recount memories of Sword Beach and the 1944 climb. Queen Elizabeth II and Jacques Chirac laid wreaths while Rangers and crowds remembered the high cost of the invasion and President Reagan’s memory.
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Hazardous device attacks kill Iraqis and injure US soldiers
In the Baghdad area and south of the capital a deadly blast fatally wounded a U S soldier and injured three others. In Sadr City a police station was destroyed after insurgents arrived, warned Iraqi police to leave, planted hazards and detonated them. A Blackwater USA security firm unit reported four colleagues killed in an ambush near Baghdad airport. A separate Mosul drive by incident killed a British contractor and wounded three allies. Armor Group employs about 1000 Iraq security staff.
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