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D-Day: 100-year-old Canadian veteran returns to the beaches

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Seventy years ago Ernest Cote and tens of thousands of fellow Canadians landed on Juno Beach.

This time, the veteran and his war comrades have received a far warmer welcome on their return to France for this year’s D-Day commemorations.

An infantryman, Ernest returned to Canada after the war staying in the military and becoming a general.

Soon to be a 101, the centenarian remembers vividly the day the western allies moved to wrest back Europe from Nazi control.

”The landing for the Canadi…
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