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Article: "Thank a vet" _ France and United States find common ground in D-Day past
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- June 5, 2004
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JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-05-2004
Dateline: GRANDCAMP-MAISY, France
His name was Frank Peregory. He came from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to France, where he fought bravely and was killed. Sixty years later, heroism like his is still bringing people together.
Under the warm sun of a waning afternoon, French and Americans _ hardly the closest of friends this past year _ gathered before a stone monument that tells how the Medal of Honor winner captured a German machine gun nest outside this Normandy town on June 8, 1944 _ two days after the D-Day invasion.
A tricolor sash draped from one shoulder, the local parliament member, Jean-Marc Lefranc, spoke in ...