NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Seventy-nine years ago, on June 6, 1944, more than 156,000 Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on D-Day.
"It was one of the most momentous events of the last century," April Cheek-Messier, president and CEO of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, told ABC News."The men and women of D-Day and World War II literally saved the world. They saved the world for the next generation."
"We need to educate [people] on the stories we do know and pass them on. They devoted their lives to that," military historian, author and professor John C. McManus told ABC News, echoing something he said during a D-Day commemoration last year:"The reality is, once that generation is gone, which it almost entirely is, it's incumbent on historians to carry on that legacy."
It also communicated to veterans that"we know what you did, why your story is important, why we need to pass it on," she said."We wanted to make sure we paid tribute to those veterans. Their stories had not really been told." According to the foundation's necrology database, 4,415 men died that day, including 2,502 Americans.
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