Up to 3,000 Allied troops died on D-day alone, with another 9,000 missing or wounded. Normandy's military cemeteries are the final resting place for a staggering 110,000 Allied soldiers - most of them cut down before they had time to live their lives. Many were young people.
They say if you aren't moved to tears by the cemeteries in Normandy, you shouldn't be there, and looking at the headstones really brings it home: thousands of the dead were teenagers as young as 17, or in their early twenties.
The survivors of D-day have spent the past 60 years with their injuries, emotional scars and a strange sense of guilt that they should have been spared while their friends perished.
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