A military piper has played a lament at sea at the exact moment of the beach invasion in 1944 to mark commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I'm here with my son. We're here in honour of our uncle who landed on this beach on this day,
00:08 you know, 80 years ago. He was in the Royal Signals, coming ashore here.
00:14 Luckily enough he made it all the way through the war, all the way through to Berlin.
00:18 So he was one of the lucky ones.
00:20 Just we're here to give our respects to the lads that didn't make it.
00:24 Just thinking about the waste of life, really, and what they gave their lives for, you know, freedom of the world.
00:33 All these things, you come down and admittedly we've had a few beers over the last couple of days,
00:40 but when it comes to something like this, it's a very, very sobering situation.
00:45 So you just look and you just think about what it was like for them.